Google ad for Facebook redirects to scam

This report analyzes a malicious ad (malvertising) campaign that impersonates Facebook in Google Search results to direct victims to scam pages. It details how attackers use tracking templates, click-tracking services, and cloaking to hide malicious redirects from crawlers and researchers, notes the campaign remained active at publication, and provides user mitigation steps such as avoiding sponsored results and using ad-blocking or browser protection.