‘Konfety’ Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins

Details have emerged about a « massive ad fraud operation » that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities.
The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy – owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit (SDK) associated with a Russia-based ad network called CaramelAds.
« Konfety represents a new form of