Category: ad fraud

Google's security measures failed to find Android malware in Play Store

Post author By Randall
Post date March 24, 2020
Categories In ad fraud, app, check point, gear, Google, malware, play store, Security, Tech, tekya

[ad_1] Google may have introduced a number of security measures to prevent malicious apps from appearing in the Play Store, but they're not watertight. New analysis from Check Point shows that earlier this year, malware was lurking within 56 apps that had b… [ad_2] Source link

Google bans developer with half a billion app downloads from Play Store

Post author By Randall
Post date April 26, 2019
Categories In ad fraud, Android, android apps, do global, gear, Google, google play store, Mobile, Security, services, Tech

[ad_1] While DO Global isn’t the first app developer to get banned from Google’s marketplace, it is one of the biggest. In addition to having its apps removed from the platform, DO Global also appears to have been given the boot from Google’s AdMob network. That would mean the company is no longer allowed to […]

Google pulls popular Chinese Android apps over large-scale ad fraud

Post author By Randall
Post date April 18, 2019
Categories In ad fraud, Android, baidu, gear, Mobile, Tech

[ad_1] Users don’t even need to fire up the app: the clicks happen even if the application isn’t running, which means it can drain battery and consume data. This fraudulent action happens with ads served with Google’s AdMob and Twitter’s MoPub, further showing how bad actors are exploiting Twitter’s ad platform. Back in March, BuzzFeed […]

Android ad fraud scheme drained users’ batteries and data

Post author By Randall
Post date March 22, 2019
Categories In ad fraud, Android, gear, Google, Internet, Mobile, Tech
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[ad_1] Protected Media, one of the anti-fraud firms that discovered the scheme, absolved Twitter of any wrongdoing — the social network itself was merely exploited by the fraud’s masterminds. Upon investigating the fraudulent ads, the firm named Israeli company Aniview and its subsidiary OutStream Media as part of the scheme. Outstream created the banners and […]