{"id":235187,"date":"2026-04-14T22:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:20:30","slug":"ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud","title":{"rendered":"AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-sad-fraud2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pushpaganda exploits Google Discover using AI-generated content, driving scams and ad fraud globally, prompting Google to deploy a security fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushpaganda exploits Google Discover using AI-generated content, driving scams and ad fraud globally, prompting Google to deploy a security fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235187","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=235187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}