Ukrainian Man Arrested in Netherlands for Creating 'Malvertising' Campaigns

A Ukrainian man has been arrested in the Netherlands and extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned in front of a New Jersey judge to face charges of orchestrating malvertising campaigns for almost five years. According to court documents, Oleksii Ivanov, 31, has been behind multiple fake companies that operated from October 2013 through May 2018 and shipped over 100 million bad ads to users all across the world.