September 3, 2015

The Dirt-Cheap Economics of Virus-Filled Advertising

That’s “nothing compared to how much infected computers can bring in terms of revenues,” Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura, who’s been studying malvertising for months, wrote in a blog post.

“Keep in mind that you also only pay for ads that are actually shown (RTB) so there’s no wasting your ad budget,” Segura told Motherboard in an online chat.

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