Hackers abuse Google Ads to spread malware in legit software (1 Viewer)

[jdraw]

Just a heads up from a colleague. Hackers abuse Google Ads to spread malware in legit software

 

[Isaac]

I often feel like the media is so careless and sloppy in their phrasing of things, ergo, their mischaracterizations.
Or, it is not being sloppy, it's very carefully calculated with knowing falsehoods for the sole purpose of getting more people to click on it.

Example: "to spread malware in legit software"
No! The hackers in that scenario are NOT spreading malware "in" legit software.
If that were true, the situation would be MUCH more dire, and I think the person who wrote the article is counting on that split-second mental interpretation to get more clicks from more worried people.

They are not spreading anything IN legit software. They are just doing the same old thing - a brand new website made to look similar to the good one, with ads that look similar too. Very different from "in".

Frankly the media is just as bad as hackers. Their veneer of nobility only makes it worse.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Apparently there are no longer any editors to catch idiotic mistakes like that one. Used to be that very technical articles like this one got reviewed by the people who gave the story or at least by a technical editor who knows SOMETHING about the topic.