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Google Sites

Google's free website-building and hosting service, often abused by phishing and malware campaigns to host fake download or landing pages.

Known aliases

  • sites.google.com

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

Ledger phishing ads ran under a verified Google advertiser and routed victims through Google Sites

Zscaler found Ledger phishing ads running under a verified Google advertiser, with Vercel redirect domains rotating every 15 to 20 minutes. The ad displayed google.com and the pages sat on Google and Vercel hosting, so domain reputation and the verified badge gave defenders little to catch.

Publishers:zscaler.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap0
Incentives35
Confidence55
securityConfirmed8 publishers

Attackers stage a RAT lure on the real chatgpt.com using a Custom GPT

Huntress traced a RAT campaign that hides its first-stage lure in a ChatGPT Custom GPT on the real chatgpt.com, across at least 40 incidents. Because the page sits on a trusted domain, blocking the ClickFix PowerShell paste is the control that works.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 64%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption20
Hype gap+30
Incentives40
Confidence68
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Attackers bought the top result for "codex macos download" and kept the payload swappable

Cato Networks says a sponsored ad outranked OpenAI's own page, sending macOS developers to a Google Sites portal whose ClickFix content lives on infrastructure Google never hosted.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 34%
Operator
Operator 58%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives35
Confidence65