Tag: Click Fraud
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Click Fraud Risk as Smartphone Discovered with Pre-Installed Malware
Security researchers have discovered malware pre-installed on a Chinese smartphone and designed to facilitate mobile ad fraud on a massive …
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How to Prevent Pay-Per-Registration Fraud
Registration fraud is harder to detect than click fraud. …
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9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring
New York police have arrested yet another man suspected of running the clickfraud factory known as Methbot: a farm of 1,900 data servers …
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Apple Removes 17 Malicious iOS Apps From App Store
Researchers have uncovered 17 apps on Apple’s official App Store infected with malware. Apple has since removed the apps from the App …
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Fake iOS Checkra1n jailbreak site installs slot machine game, generates click-fraud revenue
It’s just a couple of weeks or so since a vulnerability was discovered in millions of older iPhones and iPads. The Checkm8 iPhone boot …
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Android click fraud apps mimic Apple iPhones to boost revenue
SophosLabs has uncovered an unusual click fraud campaign in which malicious Android apps masquerade as being hosted on Apple devices to …
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Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged
The US Department of Justice has charged eight men from Russia and Kazakhstan with running a vast ad-fraud scheme that milked a total of …
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