Bahama Botnet Robbing Google and Advertiser’s Income

The Bahama Botnet that was designed to facilitate click fraud has been defrauding advertisers, as well as denying revenue to Google and other search engines. This bot is a collection of thousands of computers that have been compromised and defrauding these online advertisers.

Stealing money from advertisers is very serious, but when it has an effect on a company as large as Google, then serious questions need to be answered. Information Week has reported that Click Forensics describes Bahama Botnet as “a sort of perverted Robin Hood.”

The bot has been stealing money from Google, (the rich) and giving to the poor, such as scammers and ad networks who have no morals when it comes to the legitimacy of Web traffic. The way the Bahama Botnet works is by distributing itself via fake antivirus scams, once there it will then infect your computer and changes your DNS setting.

Once your computer has been infected, when you try to go to Google.com, you will be taken to a fake Google site with ads that will not benefit Google or its advertisers.

For the full details on this, visit Information Week.

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