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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. Re:Ffs by cfalcon · · Score: 1, Troll

    All ads are bad. These ads are worse. But all ads are bad.