YouTube served ads containing Coinhive's cryptocurrency-mining and CPU-draining JavaScript, likely via Google's DoubleClick; Google says ads now blocked
Ars Technica Dan Goodin
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@hrbrmstr
@hrbrmstr
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PSA: If you do nothing else b/c of me this year, *pls* use an ad blocker and good — regularly updated — blocker hosts file. Digital currency miners are now in Double Click (i.e. Google/Alphabet — so much for their “amazing” AI cyber experts) http://blog.trendmicro.com/...
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@bad_packets
Bad Packets Report
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“We started seeing an increase in traffic to five malicious domains on January 18. After closely examining the network traffic, we discovered that the traffic came from DoubleClick (Google) advertisements.” http://blog.trendmicro.com/...
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@drevilgames
Doctor ‘Russian Bot’ Evil
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Just another reason to use adblock and noscript extensions for your browser. They're not just for removing advertising annoyances, they're a security measure. http://twitter.com/...