Cybersecurity researchers from HUMAN recently discovered a major ad fraud botnet scheme they called PEACHPIT. The scheme involved dozens of apps, downloaded millions of times all across the world, generating huge amounts of money for the developers, through fraudulent advertising. To best understand PEACHPIT we need to take a step back and look at BADBOX – a large-scale malicious operation coming from China, which TechRadar Pro reported on earlier this week. BADBOX is a campaign in which hackers managed to inject malicious firmware into Android-powered TV streaming boxes in the production chain. As a result, people were buying TV set-top…