Malware
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
DoubleClick Serves Up Vast Malware Blitz
On Nov. 12, Web sites’ marketing professionals were flooding industry e-mail lists with reports of complaints from readers that they have been receiving inappropriate ads. Marketing professionals have complained of their ad servers being “hijacked” at sites, including The Wall Street Journal, Discovery and BizJournals. It’s not that the servers have been hijacked, Harvey said, […]
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Warning to Social Network Users: Beware of Flirting Bots
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
“CyberLover has been designed as a bot that lures victims automatically, without human intervention. If it’s spawned in multiple instances on multiple…”
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