Tracking Bots using Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the best free web stsattics software out there. They recently opened registration to anyone, and even the bad guys seem to have noticed:

Everyday we see different things that the miscreants develop to make their job easier. Today I was checking the 288th variant of Opanki. The really interesting thing about this one is that the botnet owner seems concerned over not having an organized way to check the bots, like geographic distribution, for example. But how can he or she accomplish this in an easy way? Yes, Google Analytics!

Google Analytics and Bots [McAfee Avert Labs Blog]

Original post by Security Wonk and software by Elliott

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