Scammers use Google to promote fake Whales Market website to steal cryptocurrency

According to a report from BleepingComputer, threat actors have discovered a method where scammers use Google's platform to promote phishing websites impersonating Whales Market in order to steal cryptocurrency. These fraudulent websites are placed as sponsored links (i.e. advertisements) at the top of Google search result pages, and despite the domain address displayed on the search result page appearing to be real, users will be redirected to the fake website upon clicking.