{"id":232021,"date":"2026-02-25T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/1campaign-platform-helps-malicious-google-ads-evade-detection"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:34:57","slug":"1campaign-platform-helps-malicious-google-ads-evade-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/1campaign-platform-helps-malicious-google-ads-evade-detection","title":{"rendered":"1Campaign platform helps malicious Google ads evade detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1campaign-platform-helps-malicious-google-ads-evade-detection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly identified cybercrime service known as 1Campaign is enabling threat actors to run malicious Google Ads that remain online for extended periods while evading scrutiny from security researchers.<\/p>\n<p>1Campaign is a cloaking service that passes Google\u2019s screening process and shows malicious content only to real potential victims. Security researchers and automated scanners are served benign white pages.<\/p>\n<p>The operation has been active for at least three years and is managed by a developer using the name \u2018DuppyMeister,\u2019 according to a report from data security company Varonis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly identified cybercrime service known as 1Campaign is enabling threat actors to run malicious Google Ads that remain online for extended periods while evading scrutiny from security researchers. 1Campaign is a cloaking service that passes Google\u2019s screening process and shows malicious content only to real potential victims. Security researchers and automated scanners are served [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1694,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-electronics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232021","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}