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Shocker: 22% of the malware/spyware/phishing subdomains I'm detecting with COVID-19 themed names are hosted on Cloudflare. 🤔

This is the sort of s**t I've been hunting for.

If you run across any ads on sites that throw up deceptive popup ads, can you reach out to me? Send me the name of the site you were on, and info on the ad -- a URL or screenshot would be great. This is all for science and all contributions will be anonymous.

If yes, has it tried to push you to download a VPN app from the App Store?

Hey, everyone. I'm doing some research on malvertising in mobile browser pages. Have you recently seen an ad pop up that pretended to be a virus warning from your phone OS?

@EnochianEntropy I know. It's a joke...sort of. I needed a virtual Mac for threat research.

Finally figured out how to play Apple Music on Linux.

How many of you have personally witnessed structural or deliberate racism in the actions of police officers?

@Expecting_Words Five words: Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force.

@gshevlin The same could be said of many large city police forces. Baltimore, especially.

@mcfate Can't wait to see how this trainwreck plays out.

Guess what? Apparently community guidelines and terms of service "violate free speech".
😂

@opie I am very, very happy about where I landed.

@tinkerlane Greetz

@th3j35t3r Hmmmmm.

@SuperDuke Ouch

@opie so far, it’s great. Already have been pushing out research...just too bad I can’t go visit the offices for a while.

So this is kind of old news now, but I have left Ars Technica for a job in the cybers.
I’m now a senior threat researcher at SophosLabs.

I’m baaaaaaack