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Click Forensics: Bahama botnet stealing traffic from Google

Posted October 9, 2009 - 8:31 am

The Bahama botnet, a sophisticated network of compromised computers that is wreaking click-fraud havoc among advertisers, is also snatching away Web traffic and revenue right from under the nose of mighty Google, Click Forensics said Thursday.
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New Trojan puts sneaky twist on click fraud

Posted July 1, 2009 - 10:27 am

The malware invisibly funnels search queries through its own site, cheating Google out of money.
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Microsoft sues three for 'massive' click fraud scam

Posted June 16, 2009 - 8:08 am

Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Monday against three people accusing them of running a "massive" click fraud scheme that involved harnessing hundreds of thousands of computer IP addresses to target advertisers promoting auto insurance and the World of Warcraft on-line game.
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Security vendor ferrets out who's a human and who's a bot

Posted June 3, 2009 - 10:56 am

An Atlanta security company has come up with a technology it says can block automated programs responsible for perpetuating nuisances such as spam, fake e-mail registrations and click fraud.
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Click fraud identification guidelines released

Posted May 12, 2009 - 12:50 pm

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has published guidelines for determining when fraudsters are taking advantage of pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements.
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Google dismisses click fraud report

Posted January 29, 2009 - 11:52 am

Google isn't buying the latest click fraud estimates from Click Forensics.
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Click fraud shoots up in Q4, driven by botnets

Posted January 28, 2009 - 12:50 pm

Click fraud rate hit a record in the fourth quarter, driven in part by scammers' use of botnets.
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Click fraud at 16 percent as scammers resort to botnets

Posted October 23, 2008 - 12:23 pm

The incidence of click fraud, the bane of the highly profitable search advertising business to which Google owes its success, fell slightly in the third quarter, but remains a serious problem.
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Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm

Posted October 12, 2008 - 7:49 pm

In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship.
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