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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.

VOLUME

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

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

This includes the likes of Methbot, 3ve, and PARETO.

BILLIONS

Human-VASTFLUX-Fraudulent Ad Requests

The operation peaked at

12 billion fraudulent ad requests

in one day

MILLIONS

11 million devices

running ads within apps targeted by VASTFLUX

Human-VASTFLUX-Devices Targeted

THOUSANDS

Human-VASTFLUX-Apps Spoofed

More Than

1,700 apps

were spoofed by VASTFLUX across platforms

HUNDREDS

Over

120 publishers

were targeted

Human-VASTFLUX-Publishers Targeted

TENS

Human-VASTFLUX-Stack Ads

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. 

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

Human-VASTFLUX-Volume Per Day Chart

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

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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