Google may be powerless to stop a Trojan horse program that replaces its text ads on Web pages with ads from another source A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces ...

The Trojan was discovered by security researchers at BitDefender, an antivirus software and data security provider. Researchers at the company identified the malware as Trojan.Qhost.WU. "When Google ...

The Mac malware lurks behind sponsored search results. Clicking the ad redirects you to arc-download[.]com, a phony website that pretends to offer a Mac version of Arc. The downloaded file looks like ...

Um, has anyone else seen the Trojan ad for that new purple vibrator you can wear on your fingertip? You have? You want to see it again? I first saw the ad on late night cable, and I was initially ...

One thing is true: Malware developers are deeply invested in improving their malware and exploring different ways to compromise end users. Malware spreading through ads is nothing new; for a long time ...

A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform 'Whales Market' redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. Whales Market is ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Hackers and spammers have had a ball with the search engines over the past few weeks, and the malicious fun continues with the latest attack -- this time on Google's AdSense. Anti-virus vendor ...