{"id":1416,"date":"2024-07-16T14:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/konfety-ad-fraud-uses-250-google-play-decoy-apps-to-hide-malicious-twins\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:50:28","slug":"konfety-ad-fraud-uses-250-google-play-decoy-apps-to-hide-malicious-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/konfety-ad-fraud-uses-250-google-play-decoy-apps-to-hide-malicious-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Konfety&#8217; Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bDetails have emerged about a &#8220;massive ad fraud operation&#8221; that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities.<br \/>\nThe campaign has been codenamed Konfety \u2013 the Russian word for Candy \u2013 owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit (SDK) associated with a Russia-based ad network called CaramelAds.<br \/>\n&#8220;Konfety represents a new form of\u00a0Details have emerged about a &#8220;massive ad fraud operation&#8221; that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities.<br \/>\nThe campaign has been codenamed Konfety \u2013 the Russian word for Candy \u2013 owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit (SDK) associated with a Russia-based ad network called CaramelAds.<br \/>\n&#8220;Konfety represents a new form of\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bDetails have emerged about a &#8220;massive ad fraud operation&#8221; that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety \u2013 the Russian word for Candy \u2013 owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit (SDK) associated with a Russia-based&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/konfety-ad-fraud-uses-250-google-play-decoy-apps-to-hide-malicious-twins\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Konfety&#8217; Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}