Last night my fiance complained a pop-up had appeared on her newly updated Apple MacBook while she browsed the NY Times website. It had gone away (she restarted Firefox) before I could see it. Then last night I updated my Linux computer with the newest version of Firefox, and this morning, lo' and behold, I got the same pop-up while browsing the NY Times. I did some Googling and found this appears to be caused by a problem on a page of the NY Times, or one of their advertising partners. It's a good idea NOT to download, because the site is associated with a known malware source. When I clicked cancel the browser maximized in such a way that it was difficult to make it smaller, and then another pop-up appeared asking me a second time. I've written to the Times to let them know, though the Googling I did revealed many people have experienced the problem in the last couple of days. Freaking scumbag hackers!
Here's a close-up of just the popup:
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