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Devious malware has jumped from Meta to Google Ads and YouTube to spread
Fake TradingView Premium ads are expanding
If you remember the fake TradingView adware campaign recently spotted on Meta, then bad news, experts have found it has now expanded through GoogleAds to YouTube. Security researchers Bitdefender discovered a major malvertising campaign on Meta’s network after threat actors managed to compromise a Facebook Business account belonging to a design agency in Norway, using it to run at least 75 malicious ads that promoted a fake “TradingView Premium” app. The fake app, targeting specifically Android users, delivered Brokewell, a piece of malware capable of capturing login credentials through overlay screens, as well as intercepting session cookies.
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