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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. AAA: Anti-Ajax-Argument by vikingpower · · Score: 1, Insightful

    One more, in fact, there were already so many...

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    Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
  2. Re:Uhm... by somersault · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even while you're viewing this very page, there are icons for Twitter, Facebook, and Google which must be loaded from their site

    Actually, those images are loaded from http://a.fsdn.com/sd/commentshareicons.png.

    Tinfoil hat fail.

    Yes, most of them don't care. I don't care either.

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    which is totally what she said