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Sead Fadilpašić

A huge online fraud operation is hijacking WordPress sites to send out 1.4 billion ad requests per day

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  • Researchers found a huge ad fraud scheme called Scallyway
  • The scheme monetizes pirated sites through a series of redirects
  • At its peak, there were 1.4 billion daily requests
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