{"id":156979,"date":"2023-02-03T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software"},"modified":"2023-02-03T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:22:44","slug":"until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software","title":{"rendered":"Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of queries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreat researchers are used to seeing a moderate flow of malvertising via Google Ads,\u201d volunteers at Spamhaus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spamhaus.com\/resource-center\/a-surge-of-malvertising-across-google-ads-is-distributing-dangerous-malware\/\">wrote on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cHowever, over the past few days, researchers have witnessed a massive spike affecting numerous famous brands, with multiple malware being utilized. This is not \u2018the norm.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of queries. \u201cThreat researchers are used to seeing a moderate flow of malvertising via Google Ads,\u201d volunteers at Spamhaus wrote on Thursday. \u201cHowever, over the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}