Here is a story featuring another Google product – that makes a huge profit for Google – that is being used and abused by threat actors against legitimate users:
Convincing ‘YouTube’ Google ads lead to Windows support scams (bleepingcomputer.com)
If you just make the YouTube videos look as though they have been produced by Microsoft and endorsed by YouTube (Google) search, then your scam is going to work!
When Bleeping Computers reached out to Google for a comment, Google did not reply – even though Malwarebytes (the original discoverers of the scam) confirmed that the threat actors were still running the scam ads.
