Chameleon Botnet Costs Advertisers £4M Every Month

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Submission + - Chameleon Botnet Costs Advertisers £4M Every Month (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by

DavidGilbert99

on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:48AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: "The rise of ghost sites and the murky underbelly of online advertising has been exposed after Spider IO revealed the Chameleon botnet has been costing advertisers $6 million each and every month. With little or no restriction or regulation on online ad exchanges, this is potentially just the tip of the iceberg."

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