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This article needs to be flagged. Popehat or 3rd-party scripts there are triggering redirects to malicious ads about my mobile device being “infected”.
by lloydde 9y ago
This article needs to be flagged. Popehat or 3rd-party scripts there are triggering redirects to malicious ads about my mobile device being “infected”.
- lloydde 9y agoI’ve made contact on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/lloydde_/status/923575433798434817 https://mobile.twitter.com/lloydde_/status/92357543379843481...
- ceejayoz 9y agoI've seen a big uptick on this today, including on major sites like Snopes and NBCNews. It's almost certainly coming from bad ads slipping through into an ad network.
- dabernathy89 9y agoI've been seeing this a lot more recently - not on Popehat, but on other sites including The Hill (although in my case it was a fake Amazon gift card giveaway).
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoAre you sure it's not you, or your ISP, or DNS, or ...
- dredmorbius 9y agoWhat's your DNS server?
- Skunkleton 9y agoEven is you manually specify your DNS server, your ISP may override your decision. MITM attacks on DNS are trivial and commonplace.