Yes Google adsense has been cracked by an indian engineer !
No it is not a scam this time. An indian engineer reversed the javascript code on it’s own server to get 5,000$ on his account (Nothing like the get Google ads free scam )
By David Norden, November 13, 2007
The indian magazine DIGIT prooved that “Google Adsense” contains a serious security hole.
Manish Arora found a way to reverse engineer the Adsense engine and put several thousand of $ on his account in one month.
This is explained on his blog and was confirmed by Digit.
This not good news, not for adsense publishers who get unfair disadvantages, and of course not for Google account Adwords holders, who have to pay for getting no real clients.
How did he do this (note the 18,29$ eCPM -not bad !):
Quite easily:
After opening an account with a Blog that he didn’t own and that contained enough good convincing content (but no Google Ads), he analysed the javascript and simulated on his server the human behaviour . His words:
After going through all those articles and analyzing Google’s code I found a way to simulate human behavior in click generation and page impressions in proper (acceptable) ratio from different geographic location (IP address) and was able to credit thousands of dollars in my AdSense account (By not a single human being generated click).
Digit cracked the code by sending video that when opened simulated a click.
Manish Arora with the help of an html parser and by simulating the javascript Google has on his servers was able to imitate it on his own servers and crack the system.
As he explains:
Google is protecting there ads from sniffing or spoofing with browser’s security feature of not allowing cross domain scripting. If we can access links in Google’s IFRAME then we can traverse ad links programmatically and can make money. That’s it… we got the key of making money!!!
But how it’s possible??? Very simple prepare and execute this URL on your web server and send the resultant HTML page which has Ad links to the client. In this case you can break the limit of cross domain scripting and earn thousands of dollars.
Wow, it won’t take long unscrupulous hackers will do the same, don’t you think?
David Norden
Now you know how horrible Google’s AdSense is for the AdWords Providers and you might be wondering if Google’s main source of revenue will be AdSense for long if they don’t fix the Hole, hackers will enter it very fast !!!
source documents:
http://mgoos.com/blogs/adsense-cracked.htm
http://mgoos.com/blogs/ppc-cracked.htm
http://www.winvistaclub.com/i5.html
http://www.zorgloob.com/2007/11/augmentez-vos-revenus-avec-google.asp
