iPhone users warned to update as 1.1 billion eGobbler malvertising attack is confirmed

Davey Winder for Forbes:I first wrote about eGobbler, the prolific threat actor behind malvertising campaigns with a history of compromising adverts in their hundreds of millions in a matter of hours, on April 17, 2019. Back then, it was iPhone users that were coming under attack as eGobbler exploited a vulnerability in the Google Chrome web browser for iOS to bypass the pop-up blocker and forced redirection mitigations in place. The Chromium development team fixed that CVE-2019–5840 bug w