Botnet targets companies for advert fraud

摘要

A new botnet is specifically targeting large corporations and taking overrnuser machines to generate high-value advert fraud, according to a recentrnreport from Pixalate. The Xindi botnet first appeared in Autumn 2014, butrnhas really taken off since August 2015. It has already infiltrated aroundrn8 million machines at more than 6,000 enterprises, said Pixalate, whichrnmonitors advertising networks for fraud. It detected the botnet by trackingrnconnections to "ghost websites" that only non-humans visit, set up tornexploit a vulnerability in the way advertising networks work.