You can find a program to earn money by boosting the number of audience of games live channel with botnet



"Twitch" is a popularity surging game commentary service that recorded 100 million unique visitors, 1.5 million live commentators (broadcasters), video viewing time of 16 billion minutes in 2014 year. There are many people who make livelihoods as Twitter's actual situation as "main business" among popular commentators who make full-time game play. With such Twitch,BotnetSymantec has found a program to inflate the number of viewers by creating a "fake popularity live channel" and gain unfair profits.

Twitch botnet malware lets scammers fraudulently earn money through gaming streams | Symantec Connect Community
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Twitch broadcasters can earn revenue by three criteria: "Subscribe to channels", "Get donations from viewers" "Show ads during live broadcast or after relaying". These programs only apply to channels with more than 500 regular users, but there are channels that inflate the number of viewers by bots and receive income illegally.

According to Symantec's survey, underground forums have confirmed that a number of botnet services that can inflate viewers on Twitch are sold. It is easy to set up with a single application, and it is possible to generate a fake twitch channel with a huge audience number. One of the botnets sold,Zombie computerIt is possible to connect to 5 Twitch channels at the same time for each one of these machines, and we know that the owner is not aware that the connection screen can not be seen.


A botnet rental service also exists, and you can use it for one week from a plan called "100 viewers, 40 chat users, 100 followers" for an all-you-can-eat for $ 29.99 (about 3500 yen) In the dollar (about 19,000 yen), plans such as "1,000 viewers, 400 chat users, 1000 followers" are set up.


These botnets are created by "Trojan.Inflabot"Chrome and malware pretending to be Adobe software update are considered to be the main causes, and the damage spreading mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ukraine is spreading.


In addition, Symantec and Norton have released a botnet malware countermeasure patch, which means that you can detect malware of the problem by applying the latest update.

in Software,   Web Service,   Game, Posted by darkhorse_log