Attackers using Google Search ad for Amazon listing to promote Microsoft support scam

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Google Search ad for Amazon points to Microsoft Defender scam site

Malicious actors are leveraging Google's ad service to get browsers to click on a seemingly legitimate Amazon advert, only to be redirected to a Microsoft Defender support scam, Bleeping Computer reports.

The Microsoft Defender scam site states that the device is infected with ads(exe).financetrack(2).dll malware, and locks the user’s browser.
 
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