Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device.
Citizen Lab says Israeli adtech firm Discover-Tech helped deliver Candiru spyware through targeted online ads without ...
Programmatic advertising spyware infected 45 Al Jazeera devices with no user interaction, a landmark Citizen Lab investigation reveals. Israeli ad-tech firm Discover-Tech used its NOAS server to ...
Citizen Lab uncovers the first technical evidence of a 'zero-click mercenary spyware' attack circulating via online ads to hit mobile phones.
What Candiru's COM hijacking tells defenders about detection after the initial compromise By Ian Davila, Director of Adversary Emulation, Tidal Cyber TL;DR Citizen Lab's October 2026 AdFection report ...
Millions of people have been affected, including Al Jazeera devices, by first-ever zero-click spyware delivered through advertisements ...
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Israeli ad-tech firm helped place spyware on Al Jazeera devices
Citizen Lab investigation says dozens of Al Jazeera devices were infected by malware planted through advertisements.
Al Jazeera devices were hit by zero-click spyware attacks via ads tied to Discover-Tech and Candiru. Read what the evidence shows ...
Its services gave Candiru, a spyware company blacklisted by the US government, and other surveillance firms access to advertising platforms run by Google, Comcast, Russia's Yandex, and others. Israeli ...
Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech used online ad auctions to target at least 45 devices with Candiru spyware, no click needed. October 16, 2026 - 9:38 am Simply seeing an online ad was enough to infect ...
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Spyware companies—more formally commercial surveillance vendors (CSV)—are private firms that develop tools for covert access to devices. In 2025, for the first time, they surpassed state-backed ...
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