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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. Ffs by liqu1d · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The people running these spammy practises don't help themselves. All they're achieving is pushing more people to ad blocking software hurting the rest of us who don't run spammy ads and keep them as unobtrusive as possible. Bravo fuckwits.