The Bamital botnet, assembled by an organized group of fraudsters to commit click fraud, infected hundreds of thousands of computers but has recently been shut down as authorities have seized servers and pulled others offline following a collaborative investigation by Microsoft and Symantec. Read More
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How Large of a Problem is Click Fraud?
A recent Forbes headline read “Is Click Fraud A Ticking Time Bomb Under Google?” referencing the billions in revenue Google makes each year from online advertising and multiple estimates of the click fraud rate ranging from two to twenty percent. Read More
Flashback Botnet Infects 600,000 Apple Computers
Apple fans and users have often bragged that viruses and security threats just aren’t as prevalent in their world as it is for the typical PC user. A recent investigation, however, uncovered a large botnet affecting more than half-a-million Mac machines. Read More
Click Fraud Scammers with Massive Botnet Busted
A two year operation by the FBI called Operation Ghost Click has led to the arrest of six hackers who had built a botnet of over four million computers contributing to $14 million in click fraud. The federal indictment names seven suspects who were able to generate a lot of traffic by redirecting their malware victims
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