- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 7th, 2018
Android Developers Warned to Remove Third-Party Ad Fraud SDKs from Apps
Warning comes after removing Cheetah Mobile, Kika Tech apps
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 6th, 2018
Android Clickfraud Apps Randomly Disguise as Other Apps To Fake Genuine Traffic
Real traffic forged via fake User Agents and device fields
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 28th, 2018
Multimillion-Dollar Online Ad Fraud Operation Taken Down
The ad fraud network faked ad traffic using 1.7 million IPs
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 27th, 2018
Android Apps With Roughly 2 Billion Installs Might Be Part of Ad Fraud Scheme
Developer blames advertising SDKs for ad click injection
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 7th, 2016
New Kovter Malware Versions Posing as Firefox Updates
Malware also comes signed with a Comodo certificate
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 3rd, 2016
MosQUito Exploit Stealing Legitimate Traffic from WordPress and Joomla Websites
Attackers work by replacing jQuery.min.js on hacked sites with a malicious file named jQuery.min.php
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 9th, 2016
Google Improves Detection of Ad Fraud Botnets
Google's new traffic filters specifically target the Bedep, Beetal, and Changthangi ad fraud botnets
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 18th, 2015
Ad Fraud Botnet Might Cause $3 Billion in Damages to Online Advertisers
Xindi botnet still well alive and kicking after one year
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- February 5th, 2015
Kovter Trojan Distributed via Malvertising on Huffington Post
Campaign still active, AOL and two other ad networks abused
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- January 22nd, 2015
Ad Fraud Malware Is Distributed Through Flash Player Zero-Day Exploit
Windows File Explorer process used for ad fraud calls
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 21st, 2014
Google Buys Spider.io to Help It Fight Ad Fraud
Fighting for a cleaner system requires a lot of resources