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Technology@lemmy.world•Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers sayEnglish
0·4 days agoIt doesn’t explicitly say how it works, though I imagine it’s just looking for vulnerable os & user-agents
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Technology@lemmy.world•Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers sayEnglish
0·4 days agoAccording to the report, Controlium is able to harvest a user’s identity and IP address when the user is shown a seemingly benign custom-created ad – for example, for a digital game or a telecoms service. If the user has been selected as a target for hacking, a mercenary spyware firm can then send a malicious code containing spyware to their device, the researchers say.
They say that millions of users worldwide have been served ads by Discover-Tech since 2024, including in Yemen, Brazil, Mexico and Czechia.
Related work by the research group Confiant also suggests that Discover-Tech’s ads have been shown to users of the networks of government entities in Europe and the US, as well as the UN, Nato, the international criminal court and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“It’s disastrous that major ad vendors and organisations apparently were neither able to detect nor prevent the company’s malicious advertising operations for years,” said Wolfie Christl, a researcher at Citizen Lab. “The way the online advertising ecosystem works today is a security threat for states, the private sector, civil society and everyone else alike.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists just voted to redefine how the world keeps timeEnglish
0·4 days agoIt says “more than 1,000 years”, how’d you get 6,000?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists just voted to redefine how the world keeps timeEnglish
0·4 days agoWell, great, clocks are lying now too. (Or, will be, ever-so-infinitessimally, after May 2027)
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Technology@lemmy.world•Amsterdam server seized at request of U.S. authorities after “far left” allegationsEnglish
0·4 days agoDutch police are creating a digital image of its data to hand over to U.S. authorities, as required under the American request for legal assistance.
As required under fucking what?
Also, just to belabor the point, trump is Profa.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Whistleblower Exposes Meta, Bolsonaro, and Cerimedo Election Meddling PartnershipEnglish
0·4 days agoYes and no. A captured press had a real person attached to it somewhere. Usually one person per article that had to be written. Now it’s ‘virtual’ and exponential.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Whistleblower Exposes Meta, Bolsonaro, and Cerimedo Election Meddling PartnershipEnglish
0·4 days agowhat they did with Meta is straight out of a playbook. They have very good contacts at Meta.
Never in America though. Nooooo.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Getty Images filing for bankruptcy, going private with KochEnglish
0·5 days agoWell that’s bad. Also.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy gamesEnglish
0·25 days agoWelp. It was a good run.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them.English
0·26 days agoThat’s So Microsoft!™
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school childrenEnglish
0·28 days agoYeah, but the US doesn’t recognize the ICC, so we’d have to start there.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school childrenEnglish
0·28 days ago“It was . . . the AI! The AI did it! Yeah! . . . that’s the ticket!”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school childrenEnglish
0·28 days agoThat wasn’t going to happen either way. We have to be our own Hague.
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Technology@lemmy.world•US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissionsEnglish
0·1 month agoNO FUCKING SHIT (sorry not at you OP, just the . . . powers that be I guess)
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Patches a Record 974 Security Flaws in Biggest Update EverEnglish
0·1 month ago974 security flaws.
Srs. Stahp microslofting.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why.English
0·1 month agoThey’re being evil
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Technology@lemmy.world•German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryptionEnglish
0·1 month agoSignal failed to prevent soneone from accessing my unlocked phone and starting Signal! Everything was right there!




This just in, Management are complete morons. Film at 11.