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Russian Methbot Operation Makes up to $5 Million per Day from Click-Fraud

A bot farm involving hundreds of servers and over 570,000 different IP addresses has caused losses for online video advertisers ranging from $3 to $5 million per day. This bot farm, nicknamed Methbot, dates back to September 2015, when US security firm White Ops had first detected signs of automated traffic coming from the crooks’ […]

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Tremendous Ad Fraud ‘Methbot’ : Attackers earn $3-5M Every day

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 […]

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