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Richard Kahn: December 30, 2021
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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Richard Kahn: September 29, 2021
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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Richard Kahn: August 25, 2021
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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Richard Kahn: August 18, 2021
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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Anura PR Team: August 4, 2021
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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Richard Kahn: July 21, 2021
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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Richard Kahn: July 14, 2021
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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Anura PR Team: May 5, 2021
Click fraud and other forms of advertising fraud have been a problem for marketers for as long as online advertising has existed as a practice. So-called “click bots” have plagued marketing efforts by driving up the cost of clicks and impressions...
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Richard Kahn: January 20, 2021
How much money do you spend on ads per month? Some companies dedicate as much as millions of dollars per month towards getting their ads in front of the right people. Unfortunately, a percentage of that is unknowingly wasted money.
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Richard Kahn: October 1, 2020
The rise of bots in recent years has been both a blessing and a curse. While bots can automate tedious tasks and save humans time and effort, there are also "bad bots" that can cause harm. These malicious bots can be used for activities such as...