{"id":7773,"date":"2026-04-14T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:13:06","slug":"ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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\u00a0Cybersecurity 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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 been\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ai-driven-pushpaganda-scam-exploits-google-discover-to-spread-scareware-and-ad-fraud\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}