Rambo Tribble writes A new report claims that almost a quarter of the “clicks” registered by digital advertisements are, in fact, from robots created by cyber crime networks to siphon off advertising dollars. The scale and sophistication of the attacks which were discovered caught the investigators by surprise. As one said, “What no one was anticipating is that the bots are extremely effective of looking like a high value consumer.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion
