Major Websites Hit By Ransomware Malvertising

[mirth]

Umm, see my post above yours ;)

[bbmike]

It is off on Grogheads and other sites. It's easy to tell that it is off because the little icon turns grey on sites where it's off.

[Steelgrave]

I also started using this recently - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I like that. I added it and it's running happily next to AdBlock Plus. Not on this site, of course.

[DoctorQuest]

I actually had something that seemed a lot like one of these hit my iPad. So much for Apple being invulnerable. I went to my phone and looked up the website I was being directed to and someone gave me the advice to clear my Safari cache. That worked.

[Huw the Poo]

I actually had something that seemed a lot like one of these hit my iPad. So much for Apple being invulnerable. I went to my phone and looked up the website I was being directed to and someone gave me the advice to clear my Safari cache. That worked.

Loathe though I am to defend Apple, iOS is a Unix-like and is therefore inherently far more secure than Windows (although certainly not invulnerable - nothing is).  The malware that hit you targeted your browser, not your OS, as evidenced by the fact that clearing the cache solved the issue (which also shows how weak the malware was, in that it couldn't embed itself any further than a cache).

[DoctorQuest]

I actually had something that seemed a lot like one of these hit my iPad. So much for Apple being invulnerable. I went to my phone and looked up the website I was being directed to and someone gave me the advice to clear my Safari cache. That worked.

Loathe though I am to defend Apple, iOS is a Unix-like and is therefore inherently far more secure than Windows (although certainly not invulnerable - nothing is).  The malware that hit you targeted your browser, not your OS, as evidenced by the fact that clearing the cache solved the issue (which also shows how weak the malware was, in that it couldn't embed itself any further than a cache).

Agreed. I just like to rag on Apple :)