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Cyber Security Today: iPhone users being tricked

iPhone users should be on alert to the increasing number of malvertising campaigns going around. According to advertising news site Confiant, one particular group is especially active around holidays and weekends.

A common technique of this gang is to insert code into legitimate advertising sites to push popup messages to iPhone and iPad users. For example, one message says “Dear Verizon customer,” and says you’ve been entered into a contest to win a cellphone. All you have to do is click OK. Sometimes, however, you’re just highjacked and you get taken unwillingly to another site. The end result is malware gets downloaded on your phone, or there are phony clicks on advertising that gets the gang money. One of the things you can do is stop using the Google Chrome browser on an iOS device because it doesn’t block pop-ups well. Google is working on a solution. Meanwhile advertisers have to do a better job of making sure their web sites aren’t exploited by bad guys.

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