Spammers Taking Full Advantage of Google Analytics to Manage Spam Campaigns
Google’s free website analysis service names as “Google Analytics” is now used by most spammer to track their spam campaigns. Spammers are taking full advantage to Google Analytics to track visitor interaction with their Websites, from where they are coming, user’s activities on spammer’s website and also spammers using Google Analytics goal conversion feature.
Using Analytics, the spammers can go to market with clear facts talking about the success rate of their database. Cybercriminals are no different in terms of motivation to normal business people — they want to maximize their profit for the least effort. So, metrics is a clear way to demonstrate value to their clients
IBRS security analyst, James Turner told ZDNet.com.au.
