Google Adwords blog announced about the paper published by them on “The Anatomy of Clickbot.A” available as PDF. The Anatomy of Clickbot.A is a botnet which Google’s Click Quality and Security Teams discussed last year. Botnets are networks of infected computers that can be controlled by a master computer.

MA. Neil Daswani, a software engineer and contributing author of “The Anatomy of Clickbot.A” said

Clickbot.A is an example of a botnet operator attempting a click fraud attack against syndicated search engines. Google was able to identify clicks on our advertisers’ ads that exhibited Clickbot.A-like patterns and flagged them as invalid. While Clickbot.A is a specific example of a botnet application that conducted click fraud, botnets can also be used for keylogging, distributed denial of service (DDoS), and other types of attacks.

This paper from Google will help all parties on the internet in managing botnets and other similar threats.

Mark

SEO Tags : Search Engine Marketing, Botnets, Clickbots, Click Fraud, Google AdWords, Google

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