NEW YORK, December 21. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. A group of hackers based in Russia has developed a complex fraudulent scheme under the name Methbot, which allows it to receive up to $ 5 million daily. With such a statement was made on Tuesday the American company White Ops, which, as stated on its official website, specializiruetsya on countering criminals in cyberspace.
More than half a million bots
In a statement published by White Ops, says that these hackers have created about 250 thousand fake Internet sites, which are very similar to popular pages. In addition, they are operators of about 570 thousand programs bots, simulating the behavior of a real user. The members of the group used servers located in the USA and the Netherlands.
the approval of White Ops, hackers using their sites and bots, cheat a large company dealing with advertising on the Internet, mostly American. Using Methbot scammers create the illusion that can attract millions of people to view commercials, they get from customers, mainly from the United States, large amounts.
the White Ops Experts note that as a result of the program-bots are extremely sophisticated, they are difficult to identify by conventional methods. Likelihood they give is specifically incorporated “curriculum vitae” and fake accounts in social networks.
the Most profitable scheme
the Fraudulent scheme began operating in September of this year and is still working, it brings from $ 3 million to $ 5 million a day. The group is continuously increasing its activity. The fee for one thousand impressions of an advertising clip is usually about $ 13.
“We believe that it is not even close with this scheme, if to speak about profitability, – informed the journalists of the newspaper The New York Times co-founder and head of the White Ops Michael Tiffany. – Our enemies (hackers – approx. TASS) has reached new heights in terms of modern methods of fraud is”.
among the popular pages, fake copies of which are available to operators Methbot allegedly includes electronic versions of the Newspapers The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, online broadcasters CBS and Fox News, and many others. For the most part it is an American Internet resources. According to estimates White Ops, this year the total amount of damage from actions of swindlers in the field of Internet advertising amounted to $ 7 billion.
No connections with politics
the Staff of White Ops, told journalists The New York Times that the group of hackers has nothing to do with politics or cyber attacks on American structures, involvement of which the US media and some officials in the country tried to attribute to Moscow.
Speculation about the hackers, allegedly operating at the behest of Russia, appearing regularly in the American media in recent months. In July on the website of the organization WikiLeaks published the electronic correspondence kidnapped by some persons from the National Committee of the Democratic party. The ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who was defeated in the election on 8 November, claimed that the alleged hacking are related to Russian hackers. In the Kremlin involvement in the cyber attacks Moscow has repeatedly denied.
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