Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale

mask.of.sanity writes "If you can't create valuable content to attract users to your site, Russian cyber criminals will sell them to you. A web store has been discovered that sells hacked traffic that has been redirected from legitimate sites. Sellers inject hidden iframes into popular web sites and redirect the traffic to a nominated domain. Buyers purchase the traffic from the store to direct to their sites and the sellers get paid."

AAA: Anti-Ajax-Argument

[vikingpower]

One more, in fact, there were already so many...

Re:Uhm...

[somersault]

Even while you're viewing this very page, there are icons for Twitter, Facebook, and Google which must be loaded from their site

Actually, those images are loaded from http://a.fsdn.com/sd/commentshareicons.png [fsdn.com].

Tinfoil hat fail.

Yes, most of them don't care. I don't care either.