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Title: Extortion Artists Prey on AdSense Users Post by: HCK on February 19, 2020, 04:05:16 pm Extortion Artists Prey on AdSense Users
A new extortion scheme targets users of Google's AdSense program. The scam threatens to flood a website with bogus traffic until Google suspends the site's AdSense account, unless the owner pays $5,000 in bitcoin to stop the attack, security blogger Brian Krebs reported. The grifters appear to be exploiting a click-fraud crackdown Google launched last summer. Source: Extortion Artists Prey on AdSense Users (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86518.html?rss=1) |