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Botnets Increasingly Used for Click Fraud ClickForensics, one of the top traffic quality management companies, reports that click fraud performed with the use of botnets is on the rise. In the third quarter of this year this type of activity has registered a 15 percent rise compared to the same period in 2008. ClickForensics compiled and analyzed the data f...	23 October 2009 06:10 GMT

New Koobface Variant Drops Scareware and Click Fraud Malware A new Koobface variant has been detected spreading in the wild and has been analyzed by security researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The analysis revealed that illegal money schemes used by its creators include scareware distribution and click fraud via rogue affiliate advertising programs...	1 September 2009 10:08 GMT

Click Fraud Malware Hides as Firefox Extension Security researchers warn of a new piece of malware that functions as an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The rogue add-on intercepts Google search queries and injects advertisements into the results. The new attack has been reported by analysts from antivirus vendor Trend Micro and seems to be motivated b...	29 August 2009 05:56 GMT

Nine-Ball Distributes Complex Click Fraud Trojan Analysts from security company SecureWorks discovered one of the most complex and effective click fraud trojans known to date, while analyzing the malware served by the Nine-Ball mass injection attack. The trojan, dubbed FFSearcher, leverages on Google's Custom Search widget to generate income for cybercrooks. ...	2 July 2009 08:21 GMT

Facebook Hit with Click-Fraud Problem Facebook has admitted to a click-fraud problem it has been experiencing for several weeks and says a fix is coming soon. Some advertisers complained that their own internal measuring didn't match up to the number of clicks Facebook was charging them. The problem wasn't a usual click fraud in which bots are...	22 June 2009 02:51 GMT

Microsoft Sues Click Fraudsters for Over $750,000 in Damages Microsoft filed a legal complaint against three individuals in the Western District Court of Washington alleging that the group had been involved in click fraud activities impacting its adCenter online advertising service. The Redmond company accused the three defendants of “perpetrating a massive click fraud&r...	16 June 2009 05:04 GMT

Google Banned a Korean Website and Refused to Pay Because Google's AdSense allows users to earn money with ease by placing company ads on their websites, the product is quite popular and attractive. Today, an interesting case was reported in Korea where a local advertiser sued the search giant for banning their account and for refusing to send AdSense payments....	20 March 2007 05:05 GMT

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