Click-fraud monetizing malware: A survey and case study

Tommy Blizard; Nikola Livic

doi:10.1109/MALWARE.2012.6461010

2012 7th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software

Click-fraud monetizing malware: A survey and case study

Year: 2012, Pages: 67-72

DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/MALWARE.2012.6461010

Authors

Tommy Blizard, Microsoft, USA
Nikola Livic, Microsoft, USA

Abstract

Malware monetization via fraudulent ad traffic is lucrative and relatively easy. Not surprisingly, there is a higher incidence of malware that monetizes in this way today than in the past. Although this type of attack is not new, current methodologies to make malware-generated ad traffic appear organic, at such large scales, while remaining virtually undetected are novel.

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Click-fraud monetizing malware: A survey and case study

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