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12-22-2016, 09:41 AM
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Digiday
Ad fraud is nothing new, but ad fraud detection firm WhiteOps has discovered what it calls the biggest ad fraud scheme to date, an operation called Methbot that's believed to have been scamming $3 million to $5 million a day since October from ad ...
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Report: $3-5M in Ad Fraud Daily from 'Methbot' (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_za&usg=AFQjCNHH28o16gOUmC-91VhATFbojQhf6g&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779313289799&ei=1K1bWJj3KYal3gGerajQCw&url=https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/report-3-5m-in-ad-fraud-daily-from-methbot/)Krebs on Security
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Report: $3-5M in Ad Fraud Daily from 'Methbot' (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_za&usg=AFQjCNHH28o16gOUmC-91VhATFbojQhf6g&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779313289799&ei=1K1bWJj3KYal3gGerajQCw&url=https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/report-3-5m-in-ad-fraud-daily-from-methbot/)Krebs on Security
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