Security News > 2024 > November > Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes
2024-11-14 14:00
Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites. "Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent moderation systems and teams from reviewing policy-violating content which enables them to deploy the scam directly to users," Laurie Richardson, VP and Head of Trust and Safety at Google, said. "The landing
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