Click fraud is a major class of threat that you have to deal with, says Dan Kaminsky. The major motivator for hackers is to commit click fraud as it provides a way to cash out a compromised machine. Kaminsky is a frequent speaker at Black Hat Briefings, and now works as Chief Scientist at White Ops. The other victims are the CIOs of large companies, says Kaminsky. “They are the victims as they are the people whose machines are taken over,” he says.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3089889/why-cios-should-care-about-click-fraud.html