{"id":1695,"date":"2017-01-04T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2017-01-04T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T10:28:19","slug":"russian-gang-netted-3m-daily-via-video-ad-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/2017\/01\/russian-gang-netted-3m-daily-via-video-ad-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Gang Netted $3M Daily via Video Ad Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 Million dollars a day from fraud. OMG! Read on to uncover the workings of Methbot. A security company, White Ops, estimates that Methbot spoofed nearly 6000 publishers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">An expansive botnet run by a Russian cybercriminal gang netted more than $3 million a day by generating fake views of online video advertisements. The finding is already reinforcing concerns over the prevalence of fraud in online marketing<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_1698\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/2017\/01\/04\/russian-gang-netted-3m-daily-via-video-ad-fraud\/russian-gang-video-ad-fraud\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1698\" class=\"wp-image-1698\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/709\/2017\/01\/russian-gang-video-ad-fraud-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"russian-gang-video-ad-fraud\" width=\"410\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/709\/2017\/01\/russian-gang-video-ad-fraud-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/709\/2017\/01\/russian-gang-video-ad-fraud-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/709\/2017\/01\/russian-gang-video-ad-fraud.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: refer link below<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/IpIulR\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Gang Netted $3M Daily via Video Ad Fraud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Million dollars a day from fraud. OMG! Read on to uncover the workings of Methbot. A security company, White Ops, estimates that Methbot spoofed nearly 6000 publishers. &nbsp; An expansive botnet run by a Russian cybercriminal gang netted more than $3 million a day by generating fake views of online video advertisements. The finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-around-the-globe","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}