App Spoofing Ad Fraud Affects 11 Million Devices

An “expansive” adware operation that spoofs over 1,700 apps from 120 publishers and affects around 11 million devices has been stopped by researchers. Dubbed VASTFLUX, the malvertising attack injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives and allowed threat actors to stack invisible ad videos behind one another to register ad revenue. Details on the […]

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