BitDefender, a Romanian-based online security company, has discovered a new form of Trojan malware that literally hijacks Google’s AdWords, or text-based advertisements, and replaces them with ads from other third-party sites, causing the company to lose money due to it via its click-through advertising.
The malicious software, Trojan.Qhost.WU, does this by changing details in the infected computer’s files causing it to point to a new web address rather than display Google’s AdWords.
“This is a serious situation that damages users and webmasters alike,” said Attila-Mihaly Balazs, a BitDefender virus analyst.
Full story: siliconrepublic.com
