A curious phishing attempt
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A curious phishing attempt
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Re: A curious phishing attempt
#2Good reminder that ad blockers provide security against this sort of thing. Yet another example of ad networks not checking content.
Does anyone know if this also impacts duckduckgo, which uses keyword based ads from Microsoft Advertising?
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#3Sneaky!
its quite an ingenious way of doing it. I imagine it also means this way they get round the lets encrypt phishing crawlers
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#4Good reminder that ad blockers provide security against this sort of thing. Yet another example of ad networks not checking content. Does anyone know if this also impacts duckduckgo, which uses keyword based ads from Microsoft Advertising?
I ran that search with DuckDuckGo (using Firefox) but it did not show either of the two phishing site. And the ads were clearly marked as ads (after I turned off uBlock)
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#5Good reminder that ad blockers provide security against this sort of thing. Yet another example of ad networks not checking content. Does anyone know if this also impacts duckduckgo, which uses keyword based ads from Microsoft Advertising?
Not ads-based, but I'd imagine their "I'm feeling ducky" re-director feature could be abused for phishing links quite easily. duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky+hxxp://badguydomain.com. Google's I'm feeling lucky re-director was already caught being used for phishing re-direction (and patched with a click-through). https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/12/11/the-quiet...
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#6why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place
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#7why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place
Why would someone call “InPrivate” browsing mode a “new feature of edge” when it’s built in to chromium?
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#8why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place
It's the default on a number of platforms. Have you encountered the argument that the terrible spelling and grammar on scam emails is a form of screening only the most likely to engage? I think we can safely assume that the most likely people to fall for a scam are hanging out with the default search engine their platform gave then.
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#9why would someone use bing as their primary search in the first place
If you hover over links on the post, you would notice that the author recently changed jobs, from Google to Microsoft. It seems reasonable for a Microsoft employee to use Bing as primary search ;)
Anyhow, I'm disappointed that Bing also has the practice of styling ads the same was search results, as Google has normalized.