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The Forbes 30 Under 30 list came out this week and it featured a prominent security researcher. Other researchers were pleased to see one of their own getting positive attention, and visited the site in droves to view the list.
On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware "exploit kits," lock up their hard drives in exchange for Bitcoin ransom. The exploit used was a version of hackenfreude.
Forbes has recently taken some flack from Soylent News readers for its heavy-handed approach to ad blockers.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 10 2016, @03:22PM
Now and then, I'm curious enough about an article that I fire up a VM, and c/p the address into a browser there. Read the article, clear cookies, shut the browser down, and watch Better Privacy delete a super cookie.
It doesn't happen very often. Mostly, if the site won't cooperate with my browser, I just don't bother reading it. Mostly, a Google search with some of the terms in the article will turn up some other article using the same sources for it's story.