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Methbot ad fraud ring nets millions of dollars a day

By Juha Saarinen

Dec 21 2016 6:28AM

Hundreds of millions of bogus impressions created.

Methbot ad fraud ring nets millions of dollars a day

Russian fraudsters running a massive bot farm for fake video advertising are reaping between US$3 million (A$4.14 million) to US$5 million a day, security researchers have found. Premium sites such as The Economist, ESPN, CBS Sports, Vogue, Fortune, Fox News and International Business Times ...

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