Botnets & Click-Fraud
Dancho Danchev had recently an article about "Botnets committing click fraud observed". The article had a screenshot of statistics for one botnet, here are a two more examples:
The bots search for content and then also click on links, in order to gain some revenue via pay per click advertising. While there seem to be several such botnets in the wild, the overall number is presumably rather small. At least current IRC botnets which we track here at our lab show only very seldom signs of committing click-fraud.
If someone has samples of malware committing click-fraud or more information on this topic, please send me an e-mail!
The bots search for content and then also click on links, in order to gain some revenue via pay per click advertising. While there seem to be several such botnets in the wild, the overall number is presumably rather small. At least current IRC botnets which we track here at our lab show only very seldom signs of committing click-fraud.
If someone has samples of malware committing click-fraud or more information on this topic, please send me an e-mail!
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