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Cheap Android TV boxes tied to $47,500-a-day ad fraud scheme, Bitsight finds

8/15/2026

$47,500 a day is Bitsight's estimated ad-fraud yield from the operation it calls Fuyao Enterprise.

In a single 24-hour sample, 65,957 reports resolved to roughly 38,000 unique MAC addresses carrying the Fuyao apps; $47,500 divided across 38,000 devices runs to about $1.25 per device per day.

Fengwo Group's website advertised more than 120,000 "AI digital humans," a count Bitsight could not confirm; at that scale, the firm estimates the daily take could reach $150,000, before proxy revenue.

How the operation ran Bitsight threat researcher Pedro Falé found an expired domain that had previously managed factory backdoors on certain Android TV boxes, registered it, and monitored the traffic sent in.