{"id":297217,"date":"2016-11-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integralads.com\/insider\/bot-papers-avireen\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:07:46","slug":"bot-papers-avireen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integralads.com\/apac\/insider\/bot-papers-avireen\/","title":{"rendered":"The bot papers: Avireen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Integral Ad Science\u2019s Threat Lab is dedicated to studying and eradicating fraud from the ad tech ecosystem. The Avireen bot was reported on extensively by IAS in April 2016. It is a stealthy and flexible ad fraud botnet that generates approximately 1,500 fraudulent website impressions per hour per infected computer.<\/p>\n<p>Part of IAS\u2019s\u00a0bot paper series, \u201cAn Inside Look at Avireen Botnet\u201d goes into specific technical detail of not only what Avireen does, but how it carries out ad fraud.<\/p>\n<p>To download the report and learn more about Avireen, fill out\u00a0the form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/integralads.com\/insider\/ad-fraud-essentials\/\">To learn more about ad fraud, download our guide. \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wells, Senior Malware Analyst at Integral Ad Science, goes into specific technical detail of not only what Avireen does, but how it carries out ad fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,218,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad-fraud-apac","category-insights-apac","category-research-apac"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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