{"id":7157,"date":"2012-06-13T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T23:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.webroot.com\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2024-01-24T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:21:20","slug":"seen-ad-pop-ups-in-your-mobile-browser-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/2012\/06\/13\/seen-ad-pop-ups-in-your-mobile-browser-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen Ad Pop-up&#8217;s in Your Mobile Browser Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Armando Orozco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, one of our Webroot SecureAnywhere for Android users reported seeing ad redirections while browsing on his Android device. As we began investigating, we noticed that there were a lot of other mobile users seeing the same thing &#8211; yes, on their iPhones as well! We were also able to reproduce the behavior on our devices.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a clever Ad redirection using JavaScript. The pop-ups are survey offers for free electronics like iPads and iPhones. The users are asked to complete a survey, at the end of which their email address and phone number is also recorded. I know we&#8217;ve all seen these pop-ups before, but we&#8217;re not used to seeing them in our mobile world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_slider et_pb_slider_fullwidth_off et_pb_gallery_post_type\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>These pop-ups are not related to any apps you may have installed &#8211; they are a result of how the web page was written. Web developers use &#8220;alert()&#8221; function in JavaScript, which displays a message box requesting response from a user. The advertisers utilize this method to display their ads.<\/p>\n<p>We are still investigating this issue and hope to track down the advertisers responsible. There does not appear to be anything malicious about these pop-ups for the time being, but we are sure malware authors will employ this tactic soon. With the rash of Rogue Applications and the recent discovery of a Rogue AV app (blog coming soon), we can see how this method could be exploited with malicious intent. Again, these are not platform or application-specific behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>To remedy these pop-ups, you can disable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to JohnDeth of our <a href=\"http:\/\/community.webroot.com\">Webroot Community<\/a> for bringing this to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Armando Orozco Today, one of our Webroot SecureAnywhere for Android users reported seeing ad redirections while browsing on his Android device. As we began investigating, we noticed that there were a lot of other mobile users seeing the same thing &#8211; yes, on their iPhones as well! We were also able to reproduce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":17051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3005],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[4051,11223,8631,11219,11221,11217,4065,11225,3523,11213,4893,11215,7241,3529,4313,3525],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32631,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/32631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}