Video Watch Bot

Video watch bots are used to artificially inflate video view counts by automatically playing through video content.

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Resource Development 1 Tactics

Infrastructure Acquisition

• Botnet
• Proxies
• Command & Control

Reconnaissance 2 Tactics

Specific Target

• Continual Content Scraping
• Periodic Content Scraping

Loose Target

• Continual Content Scraping
• Periodic Content Scraping

Defence Bypass 3 Tactics

Mitigation Bypass

• CAPTCHA Farm
• Automated CAPTCHA Bypass

Human Emulation

• User Agent Spoofing

Proxying

• Botnet
• User Agent Spoofing
• IP Rotation
• Domain Fronting

Attack Execution 1 Tactics

Fake Interaction

• Play Media