After 224 rogue apps on Google Play were used to create 2.3 billion ad requests daily, a huge Android ad fraud operation known as “SlopAds” was shut down.
The Satori Threat Intelligence team at HUMAN found the ad fraud scheme, stating that the apps had been downloaded more than 38 million times and used steganography and obfuscation to hide the harmful activity from Google and security tools.
Users from 228 countries installed the apps as part of the global campaign, and SlopAds traffic generated 2.3 billion bid requests daily. The United States accounted for the largest percentage of ad impressions (30%), followed by Brazil (7%), and India (10%).
Researchers called this operation ‘SlopAds’ because the threat-related apps appear to be mass-produced, similar to ‘AI slop’, and because it refers to a group of AI-themed apps read more about Google nukes 224 Android malware apps behind massive ad fraud campaign.
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