AdFection: Beyond the Click: Citizen Lab Exposes Ad-Delivered Spyware Networks

Citizen Lab has exposed how spyware vendors use online advertising infrastructure to profile targets and deliver exploits without any click, Security Affairs reports. The investigation links Discover-Tech’s ad platform to Candiru and other surveillance firms, finding its ads appeared across more than 120,000 websites and 70,000 mobile apps; Google has since cut the company’s access to its ad exchanges.