An Israeli surveillance technology firm has run a large-scale operation to infect mobile phones with spyware using online advertisements to hack the devices, researchers said on Thursday.
Here is a bit more information that might help, I posted this in privacy too.
And for some reason the US considers them to be allies.
Very fishy.
Running an ad blocker has been a matter of national and personal security for some time now.
Internet gonna be off limits to most people soon enough… There’s spyware like this, but it’s a proof of concept that random a-hole hackers will develop into lolz…
They will even use ai models with the guard rails removed to help.
I don’t really full understand the concept of “zero click” ads, and how that could possibly work. I would assume a browser should be robust enough to block unwanted downloads?
Pretty scary stuff if just seeing a ad on a random website is enough for something to be installed on a phone or a pc.
Anyone with more knowledge, can you elaborate?
Also, I am using a full network ad blocker similar to Pihole. I barely see any ads on websites or apps, when connected to my home network (either through WiFi or VPN to my home)
The capabilities are pretty insane today.
