SSP & DSP Ad Fraud | How Invalid Traffic Destroys Revenue and How to Stop It
https://www.tuvoc.com/blog/ssp-dsp-ad-fraud-invalid-traffic-revenue-protection/
Understand how invalid traffic and ad fraud impact SSPs and DSPs, reducing publisher revenue. Learn how to detect and prevent fraud to protect your ad performance.
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The HDMI-CEC protocol can detect whether a screen is powered on, but the advertising industry has largely ignored it. The result: over one-third of CTV impressions deliver into the void, costing advertisers an estimated $1 billion a year.
Agentic ad buying has moved from niche topic to top-tier anxiety for media planners
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We planned one report on Keitaro abuse, but we ran out of pages before we ran out of cases.
So here’s Part 2 of 3, a medley of threats that go well beyond AI‑investment scams.
Threat actors abuse Keitaro’s traffic distribution, cloaking, and rule engine to hide malicious landing pages behind geo and device-based filters. They stack bulletproof hosting and reverse proxies to add layers of indirection, making takedown and analysis harder. In this post, we share how we overcame this using multi‑protocol, multi‑vantage telemetry. We leveraged JA4+ web server fingerprints, DNS analytics, and Confiant’s visibility into advertising supply chain data to uncover Keitaro abuse and the delivery of malware downloaders, infostealers, weaponized RMMs, wallet drainer campaigns, scams, and email spam and advertising attack vectors.
If you hunt threats distributed via adtech, these indicators can be useful pivots. https://www.infoblox.com/blog/threat-intelligence/no-reach-no-risk-the-keitaro-abuse-in-modern-cybercrime-distribution/
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Tuvoc Technologies
PPC Land
Alex Jimenez
Infoblox Threat Intel