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Trojan hijacks search results to generate advertising revenue

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There’s a Trojan out there that forces infected computers to automatically click on advertising banners. By doing so, its creators are earning money while businesses paying to be seen are just burning a hole in their budgets without achieving anything. Those are the results of a new report by security firm Bitdefender, which has identified the Trojan as Redirector.Paco. According to the company’s press release, the Trojan has, since 2014, infected 900,000 machines. It’s most present in India, Malaysia, Greece, the USA and Italy, and works like this: once a machine is infected, its internet configuration settings are changed so… [Continue Reading]

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