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Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the everyone-start-using-screen-readers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Hackers have set up a clever new clickjacking campaign taking advantage of pop-up alerts that European users are (by now) accustomed to see: the "EU Cookie Law" notifications. The criminals are placing a legitimate ad banner on top of the warning message via an iframe. The trick is to make the ad invisible by setting its opacity to zero. So, each time a user clicks anywhere on the legitimate message, he or she clicks also on the hidden ad.

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  1. Need a good HOSTS file by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was thinking of this the other day: we need someone who can maintain a good HOSTS file that we can all subscribe to. Anyone know of anyone like that? As a bonus, the maintainer should be grumpy.

  2. Re:WTF is the "Cookie Law" by LQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here in UK, we're having a referendum this year or next on leaving the EU. It's this sort of bureaucratic nonsense that pushes people to vote to leave.