An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said.
Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto, said it believed dozens of devices at the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera had been compromised by spyware delivered through ads run by Discover-Tech, which describes itself as a specialised digital advertising agency.
These articles suck, in that they want me to disable my ad blocker to read an article about how ads can now do malicious stuff by just being viewed. Then there is no info as to what it’s doing or how it’s doing whatever malicious things it claims, let alone the OS this affects.
That’s when I use my ad blocker to zap the nagging. I ought to see if there’s some list to subscribe to to circumvent those automatically…