No doubt that the ads are the lifeblood for many sites on the web , The ads constitute important source for any big company works on the web , Google and Facebook are considered the biggest example on the money size that is spent from the clients on the ads in these companies and others , but what if you could trick on the systems of these companies and showed their ads at websites , sure you will earn millions dollars at short time as Russian hackers group did this year
This group of hackers who we will talk about them today ,they succeeded in achieving between 3 to 5 million dollars from American brands and media companies in what has become considered the biggest steal at digital ads world
This group called "AFT13" ,it's consists of a group of Russian hackers , they could to trick many companies that work at ads field , where they created "robobrowser" which simulates all necessary interactions that the normal user makes this with the browser and watching videos
The group has registered more than 6000 domain names and fake ip addresses for brands and famous websites names on web like cbs sports , fox news and huffington post , This group has sold fake ads spaces for video ads and displayed them at these fake sites
As a result of this huge process , they could earning between 3 to 5 million dollars a day at average price $13.04 CPM , and that by using fake ip addresses in data centers at Texas state and Amsterdam , and the most belong to USA , to trick user that his ads appears for American visitors , and the purpose from data centers is hosting java script browser that the group programmed and it's responsible about the fake clicks on these ads
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