Mining Malware Abuses Google Ads and YouTube

Internet monopolies are easy to manipulate it seems. Especially if they are ad revenue driven and don’t really care who or what is advertised. Both Google and Facebook have been a hotbed for scams, phishing websites and malware recently, especially those involving crypto mining.
Cyber security researchers Trend Micro have discovered a surge in Coinhive web miner detections due to a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s advertising platform. According to the report they team discover