Successful advanced phishing requests for Mercury customers using Google Ads

It appears the scammers were able to leverage Google Search advertising infrastructure to appear legitimate through the link preview feature

Always thought it was kindof lame to have to buy your own brand's keywords.

But we've moved beyond that era to one where across Google, X, Amazon, Reddit, IG, TikTok, NYT, ChatGPT, SMS...

nothing can be blindly trusted anymore.

It's going to get wilder with AI before widespread adoption of personalized trust tools solves this.