[WARNING] Tech-support scammers have a new trick to send Chrome users into a panic

[Porthos]

https://arstechnica.com/information...-new-trick-to-send-chrome-users-into-a-panic/

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwa...port-scammers-find-new-way-jam-google-chrome/

 

[Archon Prime]

Eesh....hate this crap. ublock origin seems to prevent a lot of these.. but if this is a new breed, I'm curious if that will block it as well.

 

[GTP]

Eesh....hate this crap. ublock origin seems to prevent a lot of these.. but if this is a new breed, I'm curious if that will block it as well.

If it doesn't it soon will.

 

[Markverhyden]

If it doesn't it soon will.

I've found that the anti-malware reporting ecosystem is very timely in the last few years. These types of exploits usually use a poisoned iframe or similar. I'll occasionally test email links and even after just a matter of a few hours the links are down. The poisoned links might take a bit long to be killed based on the little testing I've done.