Russian gang nets more than $3 million a day by generating fake views of online video ads. As many as 300 million video ads per day were viewed not by humans but by automated “bots” The finding is already reinforcing concerns over the prevalence of fraud in online marketing. The gang used a network of more than 570,000 IP addresses to build a fraudulent network of bogus web surfers who appeared to be an attractive pool of consumers to advertisers. White Ops estimates more than 6,000 publishers were spoofed.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/russian-gang-netted-3m-daily-via-video-ad-fraud-a-9601