Botnet

AppNexus published the whitepaper The Brand Safety Risk Behind Viral Content where elaborates that "viral content goes hand-in-hand with online advertising fraud." Viral Content (Fake News, hate speech, etc) surged on the web after the massification of Facebook, with an algorithm, often criticized to favor click-bait content. Viral

Adform's fraud team announced this week a "major discovery and have identified what is potentially the biggest bot network ever to hit" online advertising industry. The size of the HyphBot is "3-4 times the size of the famous Methbot network that was discovered by WhiteOps,