Hopefully it’s a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads.
Tag Archives: botnets
Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers
The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars.
9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring
How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.
Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US
A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.
US feds’ names, home and email addresses hacked and posted online
A group of hackers that doxxed thousands of federal law enforcement employees last week has struck again.
Hacked Fortnite accounts and rent-a-botnet being pushed on Instagram
The gaming and hacking communities overlap: Some of the hacker accounts are offering botnet access as well as Fortnite accounts.
Snowden: NSA working on ‘MonsterMind’ cyberwar bot
The cyber defense system would instantly and autonomously neutralize foreign cyberattacks against the US and could also be used to launch retaliatory strikes. To do so, it would have to control and analyze all traffic entering the US – a chilling prospect that was the last straw, the whistleblower says. 
Gameover and CryptoLocker revisited – the important lessons we can learn
Which is worse – Gameover or CryptoLocker? What can we learn from the recent US-led takedown of this notorious crimeware? More importantly, what advice should we be passing on to other people?