Getting Paid to Install Malware

[Bugbatter]

Botnets are using affiliate programs to infect PCs.

Sites like Amazon offer affiliate programs that pay users for sending them new customers. And now, malware authors, always quick to adopt tactics that work elsewhere, have developed their own affiliate program, which was described in a talk given today [Feb. 2] at the Black Hat DC computer security conference in Washington, DC.


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