THIS ISN'T FAIR!!!!!! https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016

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THIS ISN'T FAIR!!!!!!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/report-3-5m-in-ad-fraud-daily-from-methbot/

WHY ARE WE STILL WAGEKEKING?????????????????

>New research suggests that an elaborate cybercrime ring is responsible for stealing between $3 million and $5 million worth of revenue from online publishers and video advertising networks each day. Experts say the scam relieson a vast network of cloaked Internet addresses, rented data centers, phony Web sites and fake users made to look like real people watching short ad segments online.

>Online advertising fraud is a $7 billion a year problem, according toAdWeek. Much of this fraud comes from hacked computers and servers that are infected with malicious software which forces the computers to participate in ad fraud. Malware-based ad fraud networks are cheap to acquire and to run, but they’re also notoriously unstable and unreliable because they are constantly being discovered and cleaned up by anti-malware companies.

>Now researchers say they’ve uncovered a new class of ad robot or “bot” fraud that was designed from the ground up to keep its nose clean — running not on infected hosts but instead distributed across a vast, rented network of dedicated Web servers and computers.