The makers of Trojan Flashback grossed $ 14,000

The makers of Trojan Flashback grossed $ 14,000

The first real virus landed on the computers Apple , so the Mac , so far impenetrable, it would be very fruitful for its creators. These unknown people would be able to "earn" truly remarkable figures with their Flashback malware and advertising revenue. The Everything is materialized by virtue of the hijacking of user clicks. The renowned producer of Antivirus,  Symantec , has tried to reconstruct events and has hazarded a guess on the proceeds of the malignant process ...
Through the hole created on the Mac , the authors of the Trojans would come to something like pocketing  $ 14,000  total advertising revenue, if not more ...
Here is what says  Symantec in this regard:
From our analysis we saw that during a period of three weeks beginning in April, the botnet has visualizato over 10 million advertising on compromised computers but only a small percentage of users whose ads were then shown you actually clicked on, for A total of 400,000 impressions + click. These numbers have allowed gains in the order of $ 14,000 in three weeks, although it must be considered that the gain is only a portion of the mosaic: now we must also collect the money, and this is the hardest part. Many PPC providers bring into the field and anti-fraud verification process before proceeding to the affiliate payments. Fortunately, hackers do not seem to have been able to complete the steps necessary for recovery. It is estimated that the component on the spots originated from Flashback has been installed on only 10,000 of 600,000 infected machines and switches. In other words, using only 2% of the entire botnet, attackers were able to generate $ 14,000 in three weeks, they could rely on it entirely, now would we talk about the million dollar figures.
Estimated really uncomfortable for cupertino home, it's time for Antivirus on Mac ?