Digital
Jessica Goodfellow
Sep 17, 2020

DoubleVerify shuts down million-dollar CTV and mobile fraud scheme

Fraud scheme, which was quashed in 50 days, was on track to steal an estimated US$1 million per month in connected-TV and mobile adspend.

The botnet created fraudulent inventory on mobile and CTV environments and leveraged stolen IP addresses to generate fake impressions

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