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

On Thursday, researchers from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto revealed a worst-case scenario found in the wild: spyware silently infecting targets as they browse past ads in their daily digital lives.Dubbing the attacks “AdFection,” the researchers documented a campaign in which an Israeli-registered advertising firm allegedly connected to the servers linked to a spyware company and infected dozens of devices with its invasive malware. Citizen Lab believes this to be the first detai...

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