Ads spreading ransomware

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Two articles I found today:

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...of-malicious-ads-spreading-crypto-ransomware/

Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned.

The tainted ads may have exposed tens of thousands of people over the past 24 hours alone, according to a blog post published Monday by Trend Micro. The new campaign started last week when "Angler," a toolkit that sells exploits for Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and other widely used Internet software, started pushing laced banner ads through a compromised ad network.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3045...-now-impossible-to-crack-researchers-say.html

The latest version of the TeslaCrypt ransomware has tidied up a weakness in previous versions that in some cases allowed victims to recover their files without paying a ransom.

Cisco's Talos research group found that TeslaCrypt 3.0.1 has improved its implementation of a cryptographic algorithm making it impossible now to decrypt files.
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So. If I use an adblocker I get screamed at or blocked by sites for being a freeloader. If I don't, I can get ransomware installed. Not nice at all.
 
Ads? LOL. Not for me, thanks!

So. If I use an adblocker I get screamed at or blocked by sites for being a freeloader. If I don't, I can get ransomware installed. Not nice at all.
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Do you really care?
 
Firefox mobile + uBlock Origin. Thanks much.

I disable it on sites I don't mind adverts on and creators I like to support. The rest? Shame.
 
ads or ass? The title would make a lot more sense if it was the latter.
 
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