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Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results and direct users looking for popular applications to rogue websites hosting trojanized installers, ESET said […]
Following its efforts to take legal action against those misusing its social media platform, Facebook has now filed a new lawsuit against a Hong Kong-based advertising company and two Chinese individuals for allegedly abusing its ad platform to distribute malware and Ad fraud. Facebook filed the lawsuit on Thursday in the Northern District of California […]
8 suspects behind 3VE have also been identified. Last year in August, the Federal Bureau of Investigation organized a secret meet-up between cybersecurity and digital advertising experts in its Manhattan federal building. This included Google and nearly 20 tech firms while there were nearly 30 attendees at the meeting. The agenda of the meeting was to […]
A well-known Chinese app developer Cheetah Mobile and one of its subsidiaries Kika Tech might have claimed credit for millions of dollars from advertisers through an Android fraud scheme, reveals app analytics firm Kochava. It is a common practice for mobile app developers to generate revenue by marketing for new apps inside their apps for […]
According to a report from BuzzFeed News, eight Android applications, with more than a combined 2 billion downloads at Play Store, have been caught misusing user permissions to make money. The report mentions that seven out of eight apps in question are owned by Cheetah Mobile, a renowned Chinese name. The eighth app is owned […]
A Malvertising Campaign Group called “KovCoreG” distributing Kovter ad fraud malware into Millions of Pornhub Users and Put into Highly Risk by Forcing to install Fake browser updates. Malvertising (A Malicious Advertising) Method is uses of Spreading Malware via online Advertising and involves injecting malicious or malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and web […]
What is Methbot Ad Fraud? Methbot was hosted and controlled by a hacker group in Russia and Operating out with data centres in US and Netherlands. It was also nicknamed as “methbrowser,” , because it has a fake browser which redirect’s itself. These “bot farm” generates approximately $3 to $5 million per day by targeting the premium video advertising ecosystem. Experts […]