Jul 20, 2017 | ad fraud, sourced traffic
TL;DR We conducted a scan of 50,000 websites, where we picked the sites based on how much ad inventory the site is making available in ad exchanges. I feel confident to conclude that both the quality of ad inventory, and the sites that make the inventory available...
Oct 31, 2016 | ad fraud, botnet, DDoS, security, sourced traffic
But wait, if DDoS attacks can trigger ads on the target site, and sites make money from ads (and mostly only ads), whose the target? Can DDoS attacks trigger ads? TL;DR Yes. All application / layer-7 DDoS attacks trigger ads on the target site by default....