MALVERTISING VIA DYNAMIC SEARCH ADS

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Malwarebytes detected an incident in which attackers utilized a hacked website to generate dynamic search ads that advertised software containing a Trojan. Dynamic search ads are a feature of Google ads that allows for generating ads based on the content of a webpage. Malwarebytes speculates that the attackers may not have even known that they were creating these malvertising ads.