An extortion email campaign threatens to bombard websites using AdSense with bot driven traffic. Thus, it would trigger Google’s anti-fraud systems.
Brian Krebs, journalist and researcher, received the info from a website owner claiming he had received such a threat.
Google announced it removed 500 malicious extensions. The Chrome extensions stole data of 1.7 million users. But the extensions were removed after they injected malicious ads used to send user browsing data to hacked servers.
The malvertising and ad-fraud
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