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The Hacker News
2 years ago
'Konfety' Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins
Details have emerged about a "massive ad fraud operation" that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy – owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit (SDK) associated with a Russia-based ad network called CaramelAds. "Konfety represents a new form of