Print the cyber fraudsters using malware created clones of famous sites and thousands of fake users, thereby deceiving the advertisers more than $ 3 million a day, according to U.S. media, citing data from the firm White Ops.
the Russian hackers have managed to create to create, with which they earn up to $ 5 million a day with 250 thousand fake sites, misleading the WSJ and The New York Times, citing a report of the American company White Ops.
According to experts, fraudulent scheme called Methbot. “We have never seen anything like it. Methbot raises fraud in advertising to a whole new level of sophistication and scale,” said co-founder and head of the White Ops Michael Tiffany.
As established professionals, from September this year and is still Methbot uses hundreds of servers in the US and the Netherlands to create bot traffic and routes the traffic to download the web pages with video ads from major advertisers, mostly American.
In a statement published by White Ops, says that the fraudsters have created about 250 thousand fake Internet sites, which are clones of popular sites with high advertising cost, such as Fox News, CBS Sports, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and Yahoo!.
in addition, hackers have created 1.5 billion bots that have an American IP address, and behave like a real user: move the cursor, store the history of visited web pages and even have pages in social networks.
the Publication explained that the hackers used to sell ads for the fake sites at a cost of originals, and “army of fake user” was looking at them for a promotional video. Thus, the advertiser received 200-300 thousand hits daily, and the creators Methbot – from $ 3 million to $ 5 million a day.
The New York Times notes that Methbot was designed solely for profit and these hackers are not involved in the cyber attacks on the United States during the presidential election campaign.
the White Ops Report does not contain any names of the criminals, no evidence of their connection with Russia, but, as has become fashionable in the West, all over again to blame Russian hackers. In response to early accusations of Moscow’s involvement in the cyber attacks, the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that Washington need to stop talking about the alleged actions of “Russian hackers”, or to give evidence. “Otherwise, it looks already very shameful,” he said.
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