The Vastflux Takedown
HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence Team finds the threats lurking on the internet so you don’t have to. Their latest discovery is the VASTFLUX ad fraud operation. This scheme was extremely sophisticated, but our team was able to stop it in its tracks with an unprecedented private takedown. Here are the numbers behind VASTFLUX.
Billions
The operation peaked at 12 billion fraudulent ad requests in one day
Millions
11 million devices running ads within apps targeted by VASTFLUX
Thousands
More than 1,700 apps were spoofed by VASTFLUX across platforms
Hundreds
Over 120 publishers were targeted
Tens
VASTFLUX could stack as many as 25 ads on top of each other and get paid for every single one, but not actually show any
ONE
Only one team was able to take down this monumental threat and protect the ecosystem with modern defense:
HUMAN
ZERO
The amount of money being made by the VASTFLUX operators due to
our discovery and takedown.
We don’t just find the problem, we solve it. HUMAN applies modern defense to make these operations more expensive for fraudsters.
Together, we can disrupt the economics of cybercrime.
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