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Article: Click Forensics Discovers Click Fraud Surge from New Sophisticated "Bahama" Botnet.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- September 17, 2009
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Malware-Distributed Botnet Masking Itself with High "Quality Scores"; Sending Fraudulent Search Traffic from U.S. Libraries, Schools and Consumer Laptops
AUSTIN, Texas -- Click Forensics[R], Inc. today announced it has identified an unusually large spike in click fraud traffic coming from a new botnet that appears to be eluding the filters of even the most sophisticated search engines, publishers and ad networks. Codenamed the "Bahama botnet" by Click Forensics, the malware distributed botnet is using coordinated methods to mask itself as a legitimate high-quality source of search advertising traffic. Click Forensics has tracked instances when the botnet's ...