Tagged: ad-fraud

Ad fraud and click fraud: how invalid traffic is detected and monetized

Traces how invalid traffic gets monetized in programmatic advertising, from the Methbot and 3ve botnets to domain spoofing, and how the IVT-detection industry and ads.txt try to catch it.

fraud ad-fraud bot-detection

Tue, December 9, 2025 · 24 min read

Malicious redirects and traffic-distribution systems in the malvertising economy

How traffic distribution systems gate and route victims through the malvertising chain: Keitaro-style filtering, server- and client-side cloaking, malicious ad injection, and the fingerprinting that hides payloads from researchers.

malware ad-fraud web-security

Sat, November 8, 2025 · 21 min read