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‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads

The Citizen Lab researchers say that Discover-Tech operates an advertising platform, Controlium, that can allow its users to “de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices” once an ad appears. Overall, the researchers estimate that millions of devices were directed to Candiru’s servers, where they could be profiled. By analyzing ad-bidding records that were publicly exposed on…

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