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Ransomware Spreads Through Advertising on Major Sites

Accepted submission by RedIsNotGreen at 2016-03-16 03:28:10
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Ars Technica reports [arstechnica.com]:

Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned.

If you haven't installed a good ad blocker on all your friends' and family's computers, now is the time.


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