This might just be paranoia, but every time I’m used to laugh at whatever paranoid delusions I come up with, something happens that convinces me that I wasn’t paranoid enough.
I’m browsing yahoo today (on mobile), and when I go to the latest news article on yahoo finances, a warning pops up, telling me that there’s a problem with the security certificate of the site. I saw this happen a few times before on yahoo, so I just thought it was another false alarm, so I tapped continue. I started having second thoughts though, so i refreshed the site just to be sure, and tapped “view certificate”. The probelatic domain however wasn’t yahoo, but something called ‘*(dot)pro-market(dot)com’ - obviously, this came from one of the site’s adds. An internet search revealed that this is a known spam site and a known source for viruses. A virus search came up with nothing, but I’m worried.
After a hacker attack on this very forum, false anti-virus scams in in-app advertisements, and now malicious adds on yahoo, I’m beginning to seriously consider leaving the Internet for good.