Russian cybercriminals have built a new high-tech fraud enterprise: Showing real ads to fake people. The fraud has siphoned more than $180 million from the online ad industry, according to researchers ...

When dealing with a medium as flexible as the Web, it’s impossible for the site owner to fully control what a user sees. The user doesn't need the site's consent to change the user interface or ...

A Russian national convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and other crimes in connection with the so-called “Methbot” digital advertising scheme that defrauded advertisers of more than $7 million ...

A Russian national has been sentenced to ten years in US prison for orchestrating the ‘Methbot’ online advertising scam that duped brands into paying for ads on spoofed websites viewed by swarms of ...

A Russian man convicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges for his role in the Methbot digital advertising scheme was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday. The Department of Justice ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced a Russian man for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called 'Methbot' that stole at least $7 million from American companies.

A Russian national was convicted of U.S. charges that he used a bot farm and rented servers to fake internet traffic at media sites, leading companies to pay inflated advertising rates. Aleksandr ...

It was one of the most sophisticated digital fraud operations in the history of the Internet, by some accounts scamming between $10 million and $30 million over the roughly four years it existed.

What can marketers possibly learn from fraudsters? Turns out a lot. And that includes better marketing. Hard to believe? Read on. I’ve studied fraud and the scammers that commit it for years; their ...

Tamer Hassan is edging on paranoid. Sometimes he conducts weekly wipes of all his devices. But he also knows far more than most of us about what cybercriminals are capable of, and the almost ...

A company with Florida operations and linked to the controversial Steele Dossier has handed over information to federal investigators about an extradited Russian who allegedly created and spread a ...

In a lengthy deposition, XBT boss Gubarev acknowledged that Alexander Zhukov, indicted last November for the Methbot virus, the largest-ever alleged scheme to steal video advertising dollars, paid his ...