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Article: KMeth Worm Strikes Yahoo! Messenger Users, Targeting Google AdSense Program in Money Making Scheme.

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October 3, 2006
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Financially-Motivated Malware Serves Up Expensive Google Adsense Pages Related to a Rare Cancer

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs(TM), the threat research division of IM and greynet security leader FaceTime Communications, have discovered a new threat targeting Yahoo! Messenger users, known as the w32.KMeth worm. The new threat sends users to a Web site serving a barrage of Google AdSense advertisements related to mesothelioma, a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Because of its relation to toxic tort litigation, the cost-per-click for the keyword "mesothelioma" is one of the highest in the online ...

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