Category: Qurium
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‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm
‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut,…
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Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs
Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation…