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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by mike_d on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:52PM (#24412332)
Make sure you keep all your software up to date. Malvertising is pretty common, and adnauseum does a great job at firing payloads on your machine.

It is the equivalent of installing an app that silently opens every attachment that is emailed to you.

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by beervirus on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:59PM (#24412448)
They deny this, but I have no idea how accurate the denial is.

https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#does-adnauseams-...

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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by Nextgrid on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:11AM (#24421894)
They should make it so that it talks to a VM (with no persistent storage) and sends the links to be opened to it (with the current browser's context such as cookies, etc so attribution still works).
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Re:Ad Fraud on LinkedIn by nix23 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:27PM (#24414313)
Had the same idea, but my OS is so uncommon that malware probably does not exist (if it's not a targeted attack).
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