Mac-based Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust

The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said Thursday. New analysis of the Flashback botnet and the traffic between infected Macs and C&C (command-and-control) servers exposed the earnings and the lack of payment, Liam O Murchu, manager of operations at Symantec's security response center, said in an interview.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/mac-based-flashback-click-fraud-campaign-was-bust-193484

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