The Vastflux Takedown

HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence Team finds the threats lurking on the internet so you don’t have to. Their latest discovery is the VASTFLUX ad fraud operation. This scheme was extremely sophisticated, but our team was able to stop it in its tracks with an unprecedented private takedown. Here are the numbers behind VASTFLUX.

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At its height, VASTFLUX was the biggest attack our Satori team has uncovered.

This includes the likes of Methbot and PARETO.
  • Billions

    The operation peaked at 12 billion fraudulent ad requests in one day

  • Millions

    11 million devices running ads within apps targeted by VASTFLUX

  • Thousands

    More than 1,700 apps were spoofed by VASTFLUX across platforms

  • Hundreds

    Over 120 publishers were targeted

  • Tens

    VASTFLUX could stack as many as 25 ads on top of each other and get paid for every single one, but not actually show any

ONE

Only one team was able to take down this monumental threat and protect the ecosystem with modern defense:

HUMAN

ZERO

The amount of money being made by the VASTFLUX operators due to
our discovery and takedown.

We don’t just find the problem, we solve it. HUMAN applies modern defense to make these operations more expensive for fraudsters.

Together, we can disrupt the economics of cybercrime.

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