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by lloydde 3161 days ago
This article needs to be flagged. Popehat or 3rd-party scripts there are triggering redirects to malicious ads about my mobile device being “infected”.
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I've been seeing this a lot more recently - not on Popehat, but on other sites including The Hill (although in my case it was a fake Amazon gift card giveaway).
I've seen a big uptick on this today, including on major sites like Snopes and NBCNews. It's almost certainly coming from bad ads slipping through into an ad network.
Are you sure it's not you, or your ISP, or DNS, or ...
What's your DNS server?
Even is you manually specify your DNS server, your ISP may override your decision. MITM attacks on DNS are trivial and commonplace.