Help Net Security2026-09-02 05:30:40

Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive.

Summary

It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to Google doesn’t mean the ad, or the domain behind it, stops running. The tool is called AdLens, and it comes out of a study that mined Google’s Ads Transparency Center, a public database Google built to satisfy transparency ...

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KazaSec's take

Domain and DNS-level issues are an easy blind spot, most organizations monitor their own network far more closely than they monitor how their domain and email authentication records are configured, or whether a lookalike domain has been registered against them.

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Source: Help Net Security
Published: 2026-09-02 05:30:40
Author: mirko zorz
Category: technology

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