Google Ad Promotes Fake Homebrew Malware

26 Comments

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   @Steveiisler 8か月 ago

   ı am using this malware for 1 year fck google

2. 

   @dangtrungkien4999 8か月 ago

   I almost shit my pant.

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   @WyldeZk 8か月 ago

   Hi @john are you planning to take OSMR?

4. 

   @RonLarhz 8か月 ago

   What about avast, 7zip, malwarebytes,virustotal?
   I was desperate to try remove my weird virus/malware. Idk if i have downloaded the legit version or not. Anyways i have deleted both AV. But i got a feeling that avast(or whatever that was, planted itself in boot?

   I clicked on the first result…am i screwed?

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   @pauloseixas5452 8か月 ago

   impressive work.. but what was the purpose.. didn't last for long 😑

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   @grainfrizz 8か月 ago

   "my reverse engineering is not that good…"
   completely cracks the encrypted apple script

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   @moetocafe 8か月 ago

   Google should abandon the url hijacking practice in favor of security. Other major search engines don't practice this.

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   @sinom 8か月 ago

   This is EXTREMELY common in non english speaking countries where mallicious actors make websites for software in that language, with e.g. a .es .at .nl .de etc. that then get shown before the actual real websites in the search results in those countries where they then distribute malware through that

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   @c6m 8か月 ago

   RuneScape has had this problem for the last decade with fake download links for an open source client being in sponsored listings. I don’t believe the Google dev saying they’re going to fix this. They won’t.

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    @vaggelisbasoukas7928 8か月 ago

    Who is still using Google when Librewolf exists ?

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    @artvram 8か月 ago

    This is a Google problem but also we need to get away from having people pasting curls to scripts to install things. Just a terrible security practice

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    @i-use-4rch-btw 8か月 ago

    As a DuckDuckGo user I see this as… entertainment

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    @BenjiOkay 8か月 ago

    I'm glad I always scroll further down and skip the ads. But my parents don't and it felt like watching someone pickup dog shit without a glove.

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    @methe7738 8か月 ago

    I had no idea what “home brew” was and I thought it was a program helping you home brew malware 😅😂

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    @LostInTheRush 8か月 ago

    John, PLEASE raise the threshold on the compressor for your voice! I love your channel, but it's extremely sensory intense to listen to and basically feels like being yelled at. This combined with your talking speed and very few pauses, literally makes it hard for me to finish a video in a single sitting. Sincerely, a neurodivergent sound designer.

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    @bitcoinxofficial 8か月 ago

    There are a lot fake/scam ads on Google Ads. I've seen a lot

17. 

    @logancapes 8か月 ago

    This happened to me in 2021 with MSI Afterburner. Nice to see they haven't fixed this yet…

18. 

    @dimaryk11 8か月 ago

    Yandex does this too. Try typing Mozilla or Firefox

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    @Littlefighter1911 8か月 ago

    18:25 Bro, don't connect to that via your browser.
    The server can filter by the User-Agent. Just use curl (if you really want it downloaded) or better yet, only connect via telnet and close the connection.

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    @dirtyvinyl8817 8か月 ago

    And if you look up “best anti-malware for MacOS” the top recommendation is COMMON SENSE” … SMH.. accidents happen! And clearly this isn’t your typical big green button “click to go to your download!”

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    @MoonBunnyLovers 8か月 ago

    The last time I was scammed was through an ad link. Luckily that was sorted out and it was just a dispute with my card. But damn, getting a rat or worse from an ad link is a new level lol

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    @S2Premium 8か月 ago

    well f….. i downloaded that in the last few weeks and ive been really tired lately. i would have checked if it showed the right site but not afterwards…… ironically afterwards i installed a pi-hole alternative that would have prevented this….. not sure what to do now…

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    @asdfghyter 8か月 ago

    they have to pay for the malvertising somehow, why can't law enforcement track down the criminals through the payment network? it's not like google accepts crypto for payments

    edit: i guess they can just use stolen credit cards though

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    @tylerhood5035 8か月 ago

    Thank goodness, I was freaking out for a second, because I just did it the day before you made this video. Thanks for checking the terminal command I was about to wipe my computer.

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    @asdfghyter 8か月 ago

    17:00 the first one of those was a crypto wallet, so it's probably the same for most of them. there might also be some password managers in that list, but I haven't checked

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    @realityos 8か月 ago

    thank god it's fake malware.