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Tech support scammers use denial of service bug to hang victims

by The Gurus
November 7, 2016
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Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams. The HTML5 bug allows sites to chew up a mountain of processor capacity, causing browsers to hang. Scammers deploy the few lines of code needed to trigger the bug, hang browsers and then display a screen that says malware has been detected.
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