Recent creative crypto scams illustrate some specific things that investors need to be prepared for. A scam involving Squid Game demonstrates how FOMO can catch investors, and a Google Ads scheme used phishing techniques to steal wallets.
Hackers are using Google Ads to direct victims to phishing sites that steal advertiser accounts in the “most egregious malvertising campaign” tracked by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes.
Malwarebytes discovered a malvertising campaign targeting top keywords and users' search behavior to display malicious Google Ads and redirecting to Windows support scam websites.