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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 […]
Report: Web browsers under siege from organised crime
BM today released the findings of the 2007 X-Force Security report, detailing a disturbing rise in the sophistication of attacks by criminals on Web browsers worldwide. According to IBM, by attacking the browsers of computer users, cybercriminals are now stealing the identities and controlling the computers of consumers at a rate never before seen on […]
Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router
The code, published over the weekend by researchers Adrian Pastor and Petko Petkov, exploits features in two technologies: The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, which is used by many operating systems to make it easier for them to work with devices on a network; and Adobe Systems’ Flash multimedia software.
By tricking a victim into […]
Expedia.com, Rhapsody.com serving up malicious code
Legitimate Web sites are increasingly becoming unwitting sources of malware. Security experts report that Expedia.com and Rhapsody.com today have been serving up banner ads that attempt to get visitors to download fake antispyware, while embassy Web sites in Ukraine and Russia have also been spewing out attack code this week.
“Expedia and Rhapsody are both serving […]
Click Fraud: A Double Threat
How can advertisers actually begin to help networks stamp out the problems of click fraud? The CEO of ClickFacts shares his answers.
In recent months click fraud has taken an insidious turn, expanding from a marketer’s nightmare to one that threatens anyone unlucky enough to click on the wrong search ad or land on a compromised […]
Save $11.6B With These Click Fraud Safety Nets
As malware and other cyberfraud technologies become more insidious, marketers stand to lose not just money but consumer trust as well. ClickFacts’ CEO explains what’s hurting the PPC industry and how to fight back.
Imagine every time you launch a browser to conduct a search you receive the following message: “Warning: searching online may result in […]
Hackers Turn Cleveland Into Malware Server
The Register - London, England, UK
Tens of thousands of websites belonging to Fortune 500 corporations, state government agencies and schools have been infected with malicious code that attempts to engage in click fraud and steal online game credentials from people who visit the destinations, security researches say.
At time of writing, more than 94,000 URLs had […]
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Operations: What you Need to Know
This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats
At the top of the charts is a real nasty called Trojan.FakeAlert. It consists of files that cause false warnings of spyware on the computer. Usually the alerts are displayed in a balloon type pop-up from an icon in the system tray. Trojan.FakeAlert displays these false warnings when rogue security […]
