Ryan Chenkie:

Developers, please be careful when installing Homebrew. Google is serving sponsored links to a Homebrew site clone that has a cURL command to malware. The URL for this site is one letter different than the official site.

Note: Google allows the ad sponsors to specify an URL that will be displayed on the ad (original brew.sh here), but the click takes you to the malware domain brewe.sh.

#Apple #HomeBrew #Google #MacOS

@kravietz This reminds me of a similar time where a malware site popped up for OBS (software largely used by streamers). They did the exact same thing where they used Google ads to get their malicious URL to the top of the search results.

It baffles me that Google lets people *do* this.

@pepyo @kravietz lol, we asked google, through our own adwords account manager, with police complaint report and other proof provided, to block an ad campaign to a malicious domain pretending to be us and scamming people (real money scam, not just virus installation), and they said no, because they need a judge order to do that. As if they don't just randomly block whatever they want... As long as the scammer pays, google protect.

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@Laloutre @pepyo @kravietz
True! And now it's obvious that they were opposing SOPA/PIPA not because they are firm believers in "Information wants to be free", but because they benefit hugely from actual piracy, scams and all that!

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