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A sprawling new adware campaign that abused the Vast video ad server template to
rack up fraudulent digital advertising views on an enormous scale has been shut
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At its peak, the adware effort hit more than 12 billion requests per day.

Human Security's Satori threat intelligence team uncovered the adware campaign,
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operation, which they dubbed as Vastflux.



The team added in its report that, in all, Vastflux spoofed more than 1,700
apps, targeted 1,200 publishers, and displayed ads on applications running on
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