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It was one of the most sophisticated digital fraud operations in the history of the Internet, by some accounts scamming between $10 million and $30 million over the roughly four years it existed.
Dubbed “Methbot” by security researchers, the operation used thousands of infected computers around the world to falsely inflate web traffic to dummy websites and defraud advertisers. A related, overlapping scam, dubbed “3ve,” used infected residential computers linked to real human users.
This week in a U.S. federal court in New York City, the Russian man accused by U.S. authorities of being a ringleader of the group, Aleksandr Zhukov, went on trial for wire fraud, money laundering, and other charges.
Industry collaboration involving the likes of Roku and Google has succeeded in dismantling CTV’s most sophisticated threat to date. As part of The Drum’s deep dive into the future of TV, we catch up with Human, the company that uncovered the Pareto botnet, to get the inside story.
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Bots can gain access to CTV apps and pretend to deliver real ad impressions
Using spoofing tactics, bad actors can gain access to CTV servers, disguise bots as real viewers and even purport to run ads when no ads are present. As television viewership rates continue to climb, the threat of ad fraud grows. As part of The Drum’s deep dive into the future of TV, we unpack what marketers need to know.
With consumers stuck at home, connected TV (CTV) viewership – and media consumption at large – has skyrocketed. While CTV ad inventory presents new, high-value opportunities for marketers, it offers comparably attractive opportunities for fraudsters and bad actors. Because the cost per impression (CPM) is relatively high on CTV compared to other formats like display advertising, the incentives for fraud are obvious.
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