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The 2025 PropellerAds Safety Report reveals how malware distribution, and infrastructure-level fraud are reshaping risk across global performance advertising.
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The 2025 PropellerAds Ads Safety Report shows how fraud in performance advertising is becoming more complex and infrastructure-driven. Over 729K campaign rejections were issued during moderation, with malware signals accounting for 26%. Cloaking now dominates account suspensions, rising to 78.2%, while attackers increasingly use multi-layer routing, compromised domains, and phishing campaigns to evade detection.