Agentic/bot/IVT fraud evolution

Non-human traffic from AI agents reframes IVT. New schemes: Android car malware (MoYu Group/BADBOX) now targeting car head units via supply-chain attack—first documented malware chain for car infotainment, turning vehicles into proxy botnets and ad fraud devices. AfterCall overlay fraud, IAS Papyrus domains. Bitsight H96 stick fraud details. Need for nuanced detection and network-level intelligence sharing. MENA digital ad market growing fast with 20% fraud exposure. Residential IP fraud shift—fraud moving from data centers to living rooms, bypassing IP concentration detection; walled gardens blind; detection via fingerprinting and behavioral analysis. Cross-industry signal: U.S. government (login.gov) adopting device fingerprinting to combat fraud, AI agents, and residential proxy abuse.