‘Konfety’ Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins
By Nathan Zych, Chief Executive Officer · · Updated July 10, 2025 · 1 min read
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.
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Nathan Zych, Chief Executive Officer
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