A botnet designed for Web advertising fraud was also used to nudge up the number of views of some pro-Russian videos on the website DailyMotion. One of the videos promoted Russia’s position on Crimea, which it forcibly annexed from Ukraine last year. The videos appear to have been removed from DailyMotion now, according to security vendor Trustwave. All videos had around 320,000 views each but weren’t widely shared on Twitter or even commented on, Kogan wrote. In early April, the Guardian wrote of an office in St. Petersburg whose employees are paid to write pro-Russia messages.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2917773/malware-campaign-inflated-views-of-prorussia-videos.html