Facebook suing two developers for alleged Android app malware
JediMobi and Lionmobi are accused of ‘click injection fraud’ with Facebook alleging malicious code was installed onto people’s mobile phones
07 August 2019 - 17:38
San Francisco — Facebook has sued two Asia-based developers for allegedly planting malware on Android apps that robotically clicked on ads to inflate revenue.
Through a practice known as “click injection fraud”, one of the apps generated more than 40-million ad impressions and 1.7-million clicks through Facebook’s Audience Network over a three-month period at the end of 2018, according to a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday...
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