Fake Google Adwords Site Discovered

It appears that another round of phishing attacks have emerged and this time they are targeting the Google Adwords platform. Emails are being sent to unsuspecting users containing subject lines such as:

"Update your billing information"
"From Adwords No-Reply"
"Verify Adwords Account"

The idea behind this phishing attack is to obtain credit card information by tricking users into thinking that their ads have become in-active and in order to continue they must re-enter payment information. The site that a user is directed to from the email message looks very authenticate in terms of the real site (in fact the link in the email is real, but some behind the scenes clever HTML coding has changed that).

This is another way that hackers make a profit through real business models. The entire analysis can be found at my blog: