A gang of cybercriminals is using a flaw in the Chrome for iOS web browser to bombard iPhone users with pop-up windows and fake ads that whisk the users to websites that try to steal login credentials and bilk them out of money.

About 500 million fake ads were pushed out to iPhones, almost all in the United States, during a six-day barrage in early April. The researchers at ad-verification firm Confiant who discovered the campaign fear another onslaught for the upcoming Easter weekend.

Google is aware of the problem, but until it fixes the flaw in Chrome for iOS, iPhone users should stick to Safari or another browser.

In case the malicious ads sound familiar, the same gang of criminals targeted Macs with pop-ups and fake ads over the Presidents' Day weekend in February, and before that over Thanksgiving weekend in 2018 -- hence Confiant's nickname for the group, "eGobbler."

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