retooted Wolfie Christl
Discover-Tech, a company deeply embedded in the digital advertising ecosystem, weaponized ads to profile millions of people in many countries and to help infect 45+ devices within the news network Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware.
In this new @citizenlab report, we document the first public technical confirmation of a zero-click mercenary spyware attack delivered via targeted ads:
https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/