Damballa, the experts in advanced threat protection and containment, today released its Q2 2015 State of Infections Report. The report highlights how a device hi-jacked for the purpose of conducting click-fraud can become a conduit for more serious malware such as ransomware. The findings come from analysis of RuthlessTreeMafia click fraud malware introduced by the botnet Asprox. In this incidence botnet-infected devices were used to generate fake clicks on ads, a practice which cheats advertisers out of millions of dollars.”]