A report by Click Forensics links a growing amount of click fraud to botnets. The increase in botnet-related activity follows an overall upsurge in click fraud in the third quarter of 2009.
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New research from Click Forensics shows botnets are playing a growing role in the spread of click fraud.
Click fraud is a scheme when a person, automated script or
computer program mimicks a legitimate user clicking on an online ad in
order to profit from a pay-per-click arrangement.
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Click Forensics discovers a botnet behind a significant spike of click fraud traffic. As in the recent scam making use of NYTimes.com, attackers are using fake antivirus software to infect PCs.
– Click Forensics has found an unusually large spike in click fraud traffic
coming from a new botnet apparently eluding the filters of search engines,
publishers and ad networks alike.
Dubbed the quot;Bahama botnet, quot; the network of compromised computers
is distributing malware while masking…
