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Botnet: Clickfraud




Over the course of last year, we investigated one of the most complex and sophisticated ad fraud operations we have seen to date. ... Through its varied and complex machinery, 3ve generated billions of fraudulent ad bid requests 
The hunt for 3ve

How 3ve’s BGP hijackers eluded the Internet—and made $29M - 3ve used addresses of unsuspecting owners—like the US Air Force.

Pearce, P., Dave, V., Grier, C., Levchenko, K., Guha, S., McCoy, D., Paxson, V., Savage, S. and Voelker, Characterizing large-scale click fraud in zeroaccess.
2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 141-152). ACM. 
 
 
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3071001/an-https-hijacking-click-fraud-botnet-infects-almost-1-million-computers.html 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/20/ad_fraud_bots_to_cost_industry_seven_billion_dollars/

http://news.softpedia.com/news/ad-fraud-botnet-might-cause-3-billion-in-damages-to-online-advertisers-496377.shtml

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/blood-sucking-botnet-narrowly-escapes-extermination-lives-to-leech-again/

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/20/chameleon-botnet-click-fraud

Spiegazione tecnica approfondita della botnet chiamata ZeroAccess (2012)

  • We will show how ZeroAccess has been installed over 9 million times and that the current size of the botnet is somewhere in the region of 1 million machines spread throughout the world, but with the majority located in the U.S.
  • We will explore the financial aspects of the botnet, examining how click fraud and Bitcoin mining can earn the botnet owners a potential $100,000 a day.
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/technical-papers/zeroaccess-botnet.aspx

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/report-3-5m-in-ad-fraud-daily-from-methbot/

New research suggests that an elaborate cybercrime ring is responsible for stealing between $3 million and $5 million worth of revenue from online publishers and video advertising networks each day. Experts say the scam relies on a vast network of cloaked Internet addresses, rented data centers, phony Web sites and fake users made to look like real people watching short ad segments online.

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