Security Firm Symantec Analyzes the Profitability of the OSX.Flashback Botnet
Security firm Symantec previously estimated that the authors of the Flashback malware that affected hundreds of thousands of Macs at its peak could have been generating up to $10,000 per day by hijacking users’ ad clicks. Further analysis from the company suggests that the developers may have only earned $14,000 over the three weeks the malware was active.
From our analysis we have seen that, for a three-week period starting in April, the botnet displayed over 10 million ads on compromised computers but only a small percentage of users who were shown ads actually clicked them, wi…
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Security Firm Symantec Analyzes the Profitability of the OSX.Flashback Botnet
Jordan Golson – macrumors.com
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