{"id":19916,"date":"2026-04-14T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:30:00","slug":"ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning (SEO) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to push deceptive news stories into\u00a0Google&#8217;s Discover\u00a0feed and trick users into enabling persistent browser notifications that lead to scareware and financial\u00a0scams.<br \/>\nThe campaign, which has been<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning (SEO) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to push deceptive news stories into\u00a0Google&#8217;s Discover\u00a0feed and trick users into enabling persistent browser notifications that lead to scareware and financial\u00a0scams. The campaign, which has beenRead More\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}