Tag Archive for: AdWords

How a Bitcoin phishing gang made $50 million with the help of Google AdWords

How a Bitcoin phishing gang made $  50 million with the help of Google AdWords

A cybercrime gang based in Ukraine is estimated to have made as much as $ 50 million after tricking Bitcoin investors into handing over the login credentials for their online wallets.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Careful: Google AdWords Phishing Emails – Search Engine Roundtable

Google has confirmed a large email phishing attempt on their AdWords customers over the past day or two. Bindu from the Google AdWords team explained in a Google AdWords Help thread the email going out that is a phishing attempt is titled “We stopped …
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AdWords Email Verifications Are Not Phishing Attempts – Search Engine Roundtable

A WebmasterWorld thread had some Google AdWords advertisers being very suspicious over a recent email they received from Google. The email was about verifying your billing email account and some other information. To me and many others that is a clear sign …
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