{"id":174634,"date":"2023-10-24T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/malvertisers-using-google-ads-to-target-users-searching-for-popular-software"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T05:23:53","slug":"malvertisers-using-google-ads-to-target-users-searching-for-popular-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/malvertisers-using-google-ads-to-target-users-searching-for-popular-software","title":{"rendered":"Malvertisers Using Google Ads to Target Users Searching for Popular Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malvertisers-using-google-ads-to-target-users-searching-for-popular-software.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beware of fake software ads on Google Search!<\/p>\n<p>Hackers use Google Ads to direct users searching for popular software, such as KeePass Password Manager and Notepad++, to malicious copycats that distribute malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of fake software ads on Google Search! Hackers use Google Ads to direct users searching for popular software, such as KeePass Password Manager and Notepad++, to malicious copycats that distribute malware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174634","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}