John Lindal’s Blog

Click Spam

It had to happen sooner or later. As reported by JenSense, the SANS Institute has caught a Botnet that was being used to generate bogus clicks on Google AdSense. Personally, I’m surprised by the part of the quote that says …a botnet generates the clicks from a few hundred machines… Clearly, these are still amateurs. The real storm will hit when the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) folks decide that they can use their massive networks of trojaned machines to make money instead of merely taking down web sites.

Update (June 15): JenSense reported that the network has been shut down. It was 50,000 infected machines! So the future is here already