The article talks about an exploit which makes use of the European law that requires web users to be notified when a website wants to install cookies on their machine called clickjacking. They typically conceal a transparent page within an authentic web page (or in this case, a cookie popup notification) which causes the user to think that he is clicking the visible button (i.e the cookie notification), but instead it is a legitimate advert. Therefore abusing both the advertiser and the ad network hosting which costs advertisers and ad networks a lot of money while online crooks are profiting from bogus Pay Per Click traffic.
The article furthers our knowledge on cookies and explains how it can be exploited by people in real life and how cookies can pose as a threat and a real problem to advertisers and ad network hosts.
By: Lim Chen Wei
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