How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.
Tag Archives: click fraud
Ad fraud: Fake local news sites are rolling in the dough
“forbesbusinessinsider.com?” Names like that sound close enough to real news domains to pass, but bots are the only ones visiting.
Android click fraud apps mimic Apple iPhones to boost revenue
SophosLabs has uncovered a click fraud campaign in which malicious Android apps masquerade as being hosted on Apple devices to earn rewards.
Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged
The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a vast ad-fraud scheme.
ZeroAccess click fraud botnet coughs back to life
The once-mighty botnet is now only a shadow of its former self, but it’s reputation alone still makes it a headline grabber…
How will you pay for the internet of the future?
In this, the 25th year anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web, the man who claims to have invented the pop-up ad and gave rise to an economy of surveillance has apologized, said that the consequences were unforeseen, and invited the world’s citizens to re-imagine a different web. 