Google ads and a program called Keypass get tied up in this malvertising problem

Michael in Tennessee sent this article to the TSB Email list. Find a link within our link role on our blog.

The article talks about how its hard to deal with deceptive ads when the site looks pretty convincing, pointing to the original site but yet there are similar characters.

This is because characters within the URL are written in punycode. Security Now, I believe has talked about this type of code, and I sure wish I had time to listen to all my podcasts like this one.

I don’t know how access technology handles punycode, seeing that it mixes characters from what I can gather.

This Ars Technica article that Michael sent is titled Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine.

I am not sure we’ll be affected by this, just because they use advertising through platforms, however, we do need to be aware of this just the same. Let the knowledge begin!