Intrusive Browser Alert Advertisement

Spam

Some advertisers spammers have great ideas to send unsolicited messages to a targeted audience. Their goal is to convince the end-user to click on an advertisement. A new method seemed to appear on the web recently:

Intrusive Ads
Intrusive Ads (click to enlarge)

They simulate a browser security warning! Often, users doesn’t even read the warning message but immediately click on the banner (ex: to allow pop-up windows for the visited website). The example above is an advertisement for an insurance company. But, what will append if the same method is use to redirect users to a malicious website with JavaScript injection? Take care!

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