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Citizen Lab: governments using online ads to deliver zero-click spyware
Original: Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with 'zero-click' spyware | TechCrunch
The Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto digital rights research unit, reports that governments are exploiting online advertising networks to infect targets with 'zero-click' spyware. It found evidence that dozens of devices at the media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after staff were shown malicious ads, with no interaction required. The findings renew scrutiny of commercial spyware and state-backed hacking of journalists.
Why now: The discovery of a novel ad-based hacking method targeting journalists raises fresh concerns about government spyware abuse.
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- Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with 'zero-click' spyware | TechCrunch · TechCrunch
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
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