Massive ad fraud scheme on Android exposed by @CraigSilverman who unraveled an intricate web of shell cos found using sophisticated techniques to evade detection like recording humans on apps for bots to mimic, stealing vast amounts of mobile ad dollars. buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman…
This new adfraudbot that records humans using apps to evade detection defrauded Google’s own ad network of ~$10,000,000 security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google…
“It’s clear to us that the people orchestrating this scheme are both familiar with the ad tech industry and with the mainstream data science approach to detecting ad fraud”
Fraudsters quake when @CraigSilverman breaks another long term investigation. buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
Fraudsters quake when @CraigSilverman breaks another long term investigation. buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
@CraigSilverman Here’s Craig’s thread on this insane exposé…the criminal enterprises still siphoning off billions of dollars from advertisers and publishers. There’s a deep rot beneath the surface of the digital economy. Nobody wants to admit how bad it is really is.
