E-mail scams are SO five minutes ago. Hackers are buying Google ads now.
The attackers, said Thompson, profited from a Google design quirk. When users pause the mouse cursor atop a sponsored link, the full URL does not appear at the bottom left of the browser window, as it does when pointing to a link in the search result list. “This means that a user has no clue where she is about to navigate to,” said Thompson.
