The ZeroAccess botnet infected 2.2 million home networks...
The ZeroAccess botnet infected 2.2 million home networks worldwide during Q3, making it the most active botnet for the year thus far, said a malware report from security analysis firm Kindsight. The Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary’s Security Labs team found ZeroAccess infected…
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one in 125 home networks during the quarter. “Cybercriminals are primarily using it to take over victim computers and conduct ad-click fraud,” Kindsight Security Labs security architect Kevin McNamee said Tuesday in a news release. “With ZeroAccess, they can mimic the human behavior of clicking online ads, resulting in millions of dollars of fraud.” The botnet may be costing advertisers $900,000 per day in ad-click fraud, Kindsight said. About 13 percent of home networks in North America were infected in Q3, with 6.5 percent of all home networks having high-level threats like bots and banking Trojans, Kindsight said (http://xrl.us/bnww7h).