Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud

'A company that claims to combat app piracy is a pirate itself,
according to a report Oracle released this week. From a report:

Oracle claims the company, Tapcore, has been perpetrating a massive ad
fraud on Android devices by infecting apps with software that ring up
fake ad impressions and drain people's data. Based in The Netherlands,
Tapcore works with developers to identify when apps are pirated and
then enables developers to make money from those bootleg copies by
serving ads. Oracle says that Tapcore's anti-piracy code was a Trojan
horse that was generating fake mobile websites to trick ad serving
platforms into paying them for non-existent ad inventory.

"The code is delivering a steady stream of invisible video ads and
spoofing domains," Dan Fichter, VP of software development at Oracle
Data Cloud, tells Ad Age. "On all those impressions it looked like the
advertiser was running ads on legitimate mobile websites. Not only
were they not on a website, they were on an invisible web browser." On
its website, Tapcore says it works with more than 3,000 apps, serving
150 million ad impressions a day. The apps whose pirated versions it
has worked with include titles like "Perfect 365," "Draw Clash of
Clans," "Vertex" and "Solitaire: Season 4," according to Oracle's
report.'

-- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/02/21/1238254

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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