The smartphone revolution was supposed to provide a second chance for the tech industry to roll out a secure computing platform. But it turns out that phones are still computers and their users are still people, and computers and people will always be weak links. Social engineering is the easiest way for any hacker to break into any device is for the user to open the door themselves. Malvertising is a vector for these kinds of deceptive dialog boxes that piggyback onto the infrastructure developed for the mobile advertising ecosystem, whether in a browser or within an app.”]
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