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Inside ‘Ads Ninja’: The Underground Platform Helping Cybercriminals Weaponize Google Ads While Dodging Detection
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Inside ‘Ads Ninja’: The Underground Platform Helping Cybercriminals Weaponize Google Ads While Dodging Detection

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A newly uncovered cybercrime service is giving threat actors a sophisticated toolkit to run malicious Google advertising campaigns — and to systematically evade the search giant’s own screening processes. The platform, known as “Ads Ninja,” represents a troubling escalation in the cat-and-mouse game between cybercriminals and the technology companies trying to keep their advertising platforms clean. According to reporting by TechRadar , the service was discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Threat Fabric, who found it being marketed in underground forums as a turnkey solution for running so-called “malvertising” campaigns at scale. The platform provides everything a criminal operator needs: compromised Google Ads accounts, cloaking mechanisms to hide malicious content from Google’s automated reviewers, and infrastructure to redirect unsuspecting users to phishing pages or malware downloads.…

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