Archive for March, 2008
Click Fraud Trojan Targets Google, Yahoo
Top search engines Google, Yahoo, along with China’s Baidu, received attention from the ongoing work of click fraudsters distributing a Trojan to boost ad click revenue.
A continuing process of nearly daily updates keeps one Trojan in demand from scammers determined to rip off revenue sharing programs like AdSense.
The Trojan described by security vendor Symantec drops […]
Cybersquatting and Abuse to Mainstream Consumer Brands Intensified in 2007
MarkMonitor®, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the company’s latest Brandjacking Index™, which finds that cybersquatting is the most common form of brand abuse—with a 33 percent jump in one year—and that brandjackers are abusing an expanding range of brands that consumers use everyday. The report also shows recent and significant drops […]
