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9 min read

How Bad Bots Hurt Your Online Marketing (+ How to Stop Them)

Bots, programs that are used to automate common tasks for human users, have been around almost as long as computers themselves. Good bots have all kinds of uses. For example, Google uses bots to crawl the web and index web pages so their users can...

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7 min read

How Easily Can a Form Bot Beat Basic Bot Filters?

Bot-based fraud is a constant risk for anyone running an online ad campaign. Form bots are an especially dangerous threat—one that can quickly drain your marketing budget and leave you with no results for all the money you’ve spent.

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How Do Form Bots Work? (+ Ad Fraud Detection Tips)

Here’s a scenario that we see all too often: A company launches a brand-new ad campaign to promote their products and services. To spread their reach as far as possible, the company partners with a lot of different ad platforms, social media...

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5 min read

Who Was the King of Ad Fraud and How Did He Get Caught?

Have you heard of Aleksandr Zhukov, the self-proclaimed Russian King of Fraud? Unless you’ve been closely following ad fraud news, you may not know who the creator of the methbot ad fraud scheme is or why he’s noteworthy.

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6 min read

Why Do You Need an Ad Fraud Solution to Fight Botnets?

Botnets have long been a problem for companies of all sizes to deal with—and for a variety of reasons. Odds are you’ve read a headline or two about how some massive botnet carried out a big cyberattack against some company or industry and stole a...

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6 min read

Top 6 Signs of Bot Fraud to Watch Out For

For any company running online advertising campaigns or partnering with affiliates to promote their products and services, bot fraud is a major concern. What is a bot, and what does it have to do with fraud?

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3 min read

What Is a Botnet? (+ Botnet FAQs)

Bots, or automated programs that are designed to carry out specific tasks, are a core part of modern technology. “Good” bot programs do things like help search engines crawl websites to populate your Google searches or automate boring and repetitive...

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6 min read

Botnet Detection 101: Everything You Need to Know

Cybercriminals, fraudsters, and scam artists use a wide variety of tools to turn an illicit profit from their victims. One of the most common tools that corporations face is the dreaded botnet attack.

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6 min read

Beware of Form Bots (+ Top Tips for Bot Detection)

To sustain consistent growth, businesses need to gain leads and add new customers. Affiliate marketing campaigns draw on networks of people to help promote a company’s goods and services. Sometimes, the merchant is the one bringing on the...

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3 min read

What Is IVT? (+ How to Protect Your Ad Spend from It)

Fraud comes in many forms. Every day, criminals strive to find new ways to defraud companies of their money—including their ad spend. When researching ad fraud, marketing fraud, affiliate fraud, and every other possible permutation of fraud, you may...

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