Facebook Sues Asian Developers Over Malware on Android Apps
- Social network owner accuses app makers of click fraud scheme
- Advertisers who paid for phony clicks have been reimbursed
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Facebook Inc. sued two Asia-based developers for allegedly planting malware on Android apps that robotically clicked on ads to inflate revenue.
Through a practice known as “click injection fraud,” one of the apps generated more than 40 million ad impressions and 1.7 million clicks through Facebook’s Audience Network over a three-month period at the end of last year, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court.