Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers

Researchers have uncovered the biggest connected-TV (CTV) ad fraud operation they’ve ever seen, fueled with fake ad views seen by bogus eyeballs that actually belonged to a bot network they named ICEBUCKET. Bot-mitigation security firm White Ops said on Thursday that at its peak – January 2020 – the ICEBUCKET bot operation impersonated more than 2 million people in over 30 countries.

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