Apple WebKit bugs on iOS and macOS allowed 1 billion rogue popup ads on websites

“More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks which power Safari and Chrome on iOS and macOS,” Ben Lovejoy writes for 9to5Mac:Scam popup ads are one of the biggest headaches for web publishers. Scammers manage to get malicious ads into mainstream ad networks like Google, which means they then pop up all over the web – but web visitors naturally suspect the website itself is at fault.
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