2018年Q1移动作弊现状报告（英文）

The State of Mobile FraudQ1 2018Key FindingsFraud rising. Over Q1 2018, mobile app marketers were exposed to 30% more fraud (as compared to the 2017 quarterly average), reaching $700-$800 million worldwide. The share of fraudulent installs has also grown by 15%, tainting 11.5% of all marketing-driven installs.Fraud comes in waves. When new protective measures are introduced, fraudsters adapt, which leads to new measures, and the cycle continues. Fraud has become a high stakes arms race as both sides are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Bots are now the most dangerous threat. In September, we saw new kinds of bots emerge. By February, bots replaced device farms as the most popular form of attack responsible for over 30% of fraudulent installs.Many apps are exposed. Fraud is not just about a few large apps targeted by advanced attacks. In fact, 22% of apps have over 10% fraudulent installs, while no less than 12% are significantly exposed with at least 30% fraudulent installs. Shopping, gaming, finance and travel apps are the hardest hit. High payouts and verticals of scale suffer the worst financial loss. Shopping apps, with their high CPIs and huge scale are the most heavily hit vertical, with $275 million exposed over Q1 2018. Android is more vulnerable to fraud, but iOS is also a target. With greater difficulty perpetrating device fraud on iOS, fraudsters resort mainly to click flood, where iOS is well ahead of Android. In all other types of fraud, Android rates are much higher. IntroductionFraud targeting mobile app marketers is evolving faster than ever. What once took fraudsters six months to develop can now take weeks or even days. The bad guys have gotten smarter, adapting much faster to anti-fraud measures. What’s more, we see a significant increase in the rate of fraud and level of financial exposure. In late 2017, Forrester reported that mobile fraud is among marketers’ most pressing concerns. However, solid, data-backed information about mobile fraud is difficult to find. With fraud rates on the rise, we believe the time has come to share some deep, actionable insights in order to help reverse this disturbing trend.On April 2nd, AppsFlyer launched a new annual initiative we call #FoolsNoMore. The #FoolsNoMore initiative includes a series of educational resources for marketers (including this report) that we hope will increase knowledge and awareness around this pressing issue. In this study, we will explore the current impact of fraud on the market and offer global findings and insights by category, country and platform. Data Study Sample9/2017-2/2018Duration6,000Apps10 BillionInstallsGlobalFindings30% Increase in Financial Exposureto App Install FraudThe financial exposure of mobile app marketers to fraud is increasing at an alarming rate. Last September, we estimated that app install fraud would cost advertisers $2.2-$2.6B in 2017, or roughly $600 million a quarter. Over Q1 2018, this number grew about 30% to $700-$800 million.A