These cyber criminals had modified the legitimate ads to redirect visitors to websites which are selling shady health products.

He added that Google had stopped the two AdWords campaigns by weekend.

In some cases another domain used was consumernews247.com .

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Researchers noted that in all cases the symptoms were the same.

Some users were randomly redirected when they clicked on links or loaded new pages.

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source: www.techworm.net