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"thousands of IP addresses" Naive question here, but this seems like a good starting point to combat this. Aren't some hijacked IPs "hotter" than others for sp
by 0xff00ffee 7y ago
"thousands of IP addresses"
Naive question here, but this seems like a good starting point to combat this. Aren't some hijacked IPs "hotter" than others for spam activity? I would think that with Google's massive AdSense network, patterns would emerge from bot'ed IPs that are blasting away at various Google adsense customers, no?
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoBotnet IP addresses have kind of a high churn rate. One person notices their computer is acting funny and gets it cleaned, another person gets newly infected. Somebody unknowingly has an infected laptop and they go plug it into a dozen different wifi networks over the course of a month, causing requests from a dozen different IP addresses that are each also shared by legitimate users. The result is that half the IP addresses on the internet have had bot traffic at one point or another, often at the same time as they have legitimate traffic.
- paulgb 7y agoYes, I suspect Google has a pretty good idea of what IPs are in botnets. I used to work on detecting fraud traffic at an adtech startup and the impressions we got through Google tended not to include the botnets I could identify coming through other ad networks. (Granted, this was near the beginning of last decade and it's a constantly-evolving cat-and-mouse game.)