Cybersecurity continues to be an essential area of concern for individuals and businesses alike. A new threat making the news every few weeks is a common part of the world we live in today. It’s more important than ever before to utilize companies like RAVENii to handle cybersecurity concerns such as managed endpoint protection.
Google Ads Abuse
The most dangerous new threat to cybersecurity is hackers disguising their malware as legit software through google ads. Typosquatting campaigns have been a security concern for quite a while already. The google ads abuse connection is a fairly new discovery though. The abuse of Google ad connections is a relatively new discovery.
From BleepingComputer, “The Google Ads platform helps advertisers promote pages on Google Search, placing them high in the list of results as advertisements, often above the official website of the project.” So when users looking for legitimate software without an ad blocker see promotions come up first in their search, they might click on it due to the similarity the page has to the actual page they’re searching for.
Some of the more common products impersonated in these campaigns include:
- Grammarly
- MSI Afterburner
- Slack
- Dashlane
- Malwarebytes
- Audacity
- μTorrent
- OBS
- Ring
- AnyDesk
- Libre Office
- Teamviewer
- Thunderbird
- Brave
Managed Endpoint Protection
The best cybersecurity measure to protect your company from threats like Google’s abused ads occurrence is to guard your endpoints. RAVENii’s managed endpoint protection service will defend all access points with 24/7 monitoring for any malicious activity. This will keep your networks running and corporate assets safe. This allows you to devote more IT resources to your core business.
RAVENii’s Managed Endpoint Protection Service also includes:
- Malware Protection
- Internet Filtering
- Device Lockdown, alarming and wiping
- Device Tracking and Reclamation
- Remote Assistance
- Regular executive indicator and reporting debriefs
- Access to RAVENii’s Security Incident Response and Management Team
- Anytime/Anywhere management of endpoints
For more information about cybersecurity and malware awareness and training from RAVENii, click here or call (844) 317-0944 today.