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Integral Ad Science\u2019s Threat Lab is dedicated to studying and eradicating fraud in the ad tech ecosystem. This paper, latest in our series of reports intended to educate the security community on threats specific to the ad tech industry, focuses on Proxy8. We aimed to give readers a deeper sense of how the bot works, how we detected it, and ultimately how we were able to protect our clients against it.<\/p>\n

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