It doesn’t explicitly say how it works, though I imagine it’s just looking for vulnerable os & user-agents

According 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.”

It says “more than 1,000 years”, how’d you get 6,000?

Well, great, clocks are lying now too. (Or, will be, ever-so-infinitessimally, after May 2027)

Dutch 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.

Yes 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.

what they did with Meta is straight out of a playbook. They have very good contacts at Meta.

Never in America though. Nooooo.

Well that’s bad. Also.

Welp. It was a good run.

That’s So Microsoft!™

Yeah, but the US doesn’t recognize the ICC, so we’d have to start there.

“It was . . . the AI! The AI did it! Yeah! . . . that’s the ticket!”

That wasn’t going to happen either way. We have to be our own Hague.

What’s “reddit”?

/s

NO FUCKING SHIT (sorry not at you OP, just the . . . powers that be I guess)

974 security flaws.

Srs. Stahp microslofting.

They’re being evil

Signal failed to prevent soneone from accessing my unlocked phone and starting Signal! Everything was right there!

Of course. It threatens the base of his power. Cambridge Analytica.