Security News > 2019 > August > What can be done about the rising click interception threat?

Ad networks’ increasingly successful efforts to detect bot-based ad click fraud has forced attackers to focus more on intercepting and redirecting legitimate users’ clicks. How widespread is the practice? A group of researchers from Microsoft Research and several Chinese, Korean and U.S. universities has created a browser-based analysis framework called Observer and analyzed click related behaviors on the Alexa top 250K websites. They discovered 437 third-party scripts intercepting user clicks on 613 websites, which receive … More → The post What can be done about the rising click interception threat? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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