Comment on New Nitrogen malware pushed via Google Ads for ransomware attacks

TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m nostalgic for the day when Google was the good company. A few years before “alphabet” you could see the change coming and since “alphabet” they are worse every year.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They never were the “good company,” in my opinion. We were just naive and ignorant of what they were up to.

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And they were trying to maintain a false veneer. Nowadays it’s mask off with them.

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• rehabdoll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  … and attempting to kill adblockers!

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• bh11235@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the future your browser will be able to remotely attest that you have no viable security solution to block the infection and no working backups as a condition for being served these malicious ads, increasing the ad value since they can now be more precisely targeted

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• starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck Google

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