Mac Botnet Generated $10,000 A Day

Flashback was robbing Google of advertising dollars by redirecting clicks from infected Mac OS X machines and stealing the ad revenue.

Security researchers at Symantec are estimating that the cyber-crimibals behind the Flashback Mac OS X botnet may have raked in about $10,000 a day.

In a new blog post that discusses the business model of the botnet, Symantec found that Flashback was robbing Google of advertising dollars by redirecting clicks from infected Mac OS X machines and stealing the ad revenue.

At its height, Flashback contained more than 700,000 Mac machines and Symantec calculates that a botnet of that size could easily generate about $10,000 a day in click-fraud.

I guess you MAC users feel pretty violated. Don't worry about it, us PC users have been having sex without kisses for years. Welcome to the club!!!                                ...Butch

P. S. Tell me Cyber Crime doesn't pay, when was the last time you made $10,000 a day?