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Q2 2015 State of Infections Report Highlights Click-Fraud as Entry Route for High Risk Ransomware

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.”]

Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/q2-2015-state-of-infections-report-highlights-click-fraud-as-entry-route-for-high-risk-ransomware/

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