Serving ads via AdSense is a primary source of income for any regular blogger. Ads could garner significant revenue besides affiliates and subscriptions, so this couldn’t be ignored by a publisher. But a nightmare as Google’s notice to suspend or even ban their site from serving ads could scare them enough. And here’s one such attack in wild, demanding publishers to send $5000 worth bitcoin in exchange for not bombarding their sites with fake traffic.
Driving traffic to flag them suspicious
The unknown attackers have been warning few publishers by emails and warning them of their attacks. An excerpt from one such email sourced by Krebs read, Google’s algorithms constantly review the traffic obtained by sites. And if they find anything suspicious, as a sudden rise in traffic, they may flag the publisher to be using tools or self clicking on ads to increase views, and suspend or even ban him from serving ads.
