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Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale

Posted by timothy on from the 1-crying-young-spying-young-viewer-for-sale dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "If you can't create valuable content to attract users to your site, Russian cyber criminals will sell them to you. A web store has been discovered that sells hacked traffic that has been redirected from legitimate sites. Sellers inject hidden iframes into popular web sites and redirect the traffic to a nominated domain. Buyers purchase the traffic from the store to direct to their sites and the sellers get paid."

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  1. In the news tomorrow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    "Russian Hackers find a way to sell their own mothers"

  2. Obligatory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, web-store sells you.

  3. OMG by goldaryn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today I learnt

    1) There are hackers on the Internet

    2) Foreign capitalists also engage in criminal activity

    3) Noone cares about Australian click-throughs