Scams & Phishing Hackers Poison Google and Bing Results to Deliver Cloaked Banking Phishing Pages

[Parkinsond]

Content source

https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-poison-google-bing-results/

Bank customers searching for a login page can now be led into a trap before they receive a suspicious email or text message.

Criminals are manipulating Google and Bing results so that fraudulent banking pages appear where people expect to find legitimate services.

Instead of compromising a real website, the operators register lookalike names, then build pages around the words users type into Google or Bing.

Victims who click a highly ranked result can be shown a convincing copy of a banking site built to collect passwords and hijack active sessions.

Analysts at Fortra Intelligence and Research Experts, known as FIRE, identified a sharp rise in this activity during the second quarter of 2026. The campaigns targeted several major financial institutions and their customers.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-poison-google-bing-results/

 

[Sampei.Nihira]

It's bad to use Bing or Google....

 

[Parkinsond]

It's bad to use Bing or Google....

Only Google search can fetch my favorite memes; Bing and Startpage could not.