Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Summary
Ars Technica reports on a sophisticated Google ads-based scareware campaign that freezes the screen with a fake security warning and directs victims to call a bogus support center. Netskope tracked hundreds of campaigns across numerous publisher sites and thousands of ad IDs, with victims primarily in the US, Japan, and Australia. Google says it has zero tolerance for scams and is investigating the campaigns.