Clickbot.A

Clickbot.A is a botnet that is used for click fraud.^[1]^[2]

The bot was first discovered by Swa Frantzen at SANS' Internet Storm Center in May 2006. At that time, the botnet had infected about 100 machines. The infected population grew to over 100,000 machines within one month.

The bot was written as a plugin to Internet Explorer that was downloaded by IE users. It operated by using victims' computers to automatically click on pay-per-click Internet advertisements.

It is also used to steal passwords from unsuspecting users.

References

^ Walgampaya, Chamila; Kantardzic, Mehmed (2011). "Cracking the Smart Click Bot". 2011 13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE). pp. 125–134. doi:10.1109/WSE.2011.6081830. ISBN 978-1-4577-0700-1. S2CID 11092091.
^ Daswani, Niel; Stoppelman, Michael; the Google Click Quality and Security Teams (2007). "The Anatomy of Clickbot.A". USENIX Hotbots. Google, Inc. {{cite journal}}: |last3= has generic name (help)

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[1] Walgampaya, Chamila; Kantardzic, Mehmed (2011). "Cracking the Smart Click Bot". 2011 13th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE). pp. 125–134. doi:10.1109/WSE.2011.6081830. ISBN 978-1-4577-0700-1. S2CID 11092091.

[2] Daswani, Niel; Stoppelman, Michael; the Google Click Quality and Security Teams (2007). "The Anatomy of Clickbot.A". USENIX Hotbots. Google, Inc. {{cite journal}}: |last3= has generic name (help)

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