Anti-fraud
Five ways to stop feeding bots in Yandex’s ad network
Practical campaign, audience and form-protection steps that reduce low-quality clicks and keep automated traffic from training ad algorithms.
Killbot Group Blog
Practical bot and traffic protection
Research and case studies on bots, click fraud, website security and traffic quality.
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Research
Detecting automated social accounts through exposed local ports
A technical investigation into how exposed services and infrastructure patterns can reveal links between automated online activity.
Security
DDoS incidents: separating technical facts from media noise
A look at how to document an incident, distinguish evidence from headlines and communicate clearly while an attack is in progress.
Anti-fraud
Bot traffic in Yandex Ads has reached industrial scale
How bot farms imitate conversions, influence campaign optimisation and consume budget without generating genuine demand.
Advertising
Excluding bots with Yandex Audiences
A practical method for building suspicious-traffic segments, testing exclusions and measuring their impact without changing every setting at once.
Security
When a VPN becomes a risk signal
Why VPN use alone should never decide whether a visitor is blocked, and how network and browser signals can be evaluated in context.
Security
DDoS protection: separating real risk from fear-based selling
Not every traffic spike needs expensive mitigation. This article explains how to identify the type of load and protect the right layer.
Security
VPN detection and the digital signals users leave behind
A review of proxy signals, provider data and the technical traces a connection may expose without treating a single indicator as proof.
Marketing
How promo codes can grow a Telegram audience by 30%
A practical growth mechanic for exchanging a clear benefit for a subscription and turning that first contact into a useful customer journey.
Anti-fraud
How Yandex may evaluate ad clicks and filter fraud
Why an ad platform’s internal filters do not replace the advertiser’s own traffic-quality analysis after the click.
Website protection
Making behavioural bot attacks expensive for their operators
An approach that raises the cost of human-like automation while keeping verification invisible to genuine visitors.
Website protection
Step by step: stopping scrapers and behavioural bots with a DNS proxy
How DNS-level filtering can protect content and analytics before an automated request reaches the website.
Anti-fraud
Paid click workers: who clicks Yandex ads for pennies?
Click fraud is not always software. This article examines incentivised human traffic and the patterns it leaves behind.
Anti-fraud
Removing bot traffic from Yandex Ads
A case-led method for identifying suspicious visits, validating them with session data and improving campaign decisions.
Case study
Case study: bots spent RUB 10,000 through hidden ad links
An experiment showing automated clicks on links that genuine users could not see, with a measurable impact on ad spend.
Anti-fraud
Who creates bots, what tools they use, and why ad platforms struggle
A map of the automation ecosystem: tools, proxies and behaviour scripts that keep adapting to advertising-platform rules.
Advertising
Why traffic quality in Yandex’s ad network keeps falling
Why more clicks do not always mean more demand, and which post-click signals help reveal low-quality placements and bot traffic.
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