Online ads helped deliver Israeli spyware to devices visiting Al Jazeera, 120,000 websites
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- Its services gave Candiru, a spyware company blacklisted by the US government, and other surveillance firms access to advertising platforms run by Google, Comcast, Russia's Yandex, and others.S1
- An Israeli ad company, DiscoverTech, has for years been secretly helping spyware developers place their hacking software on popular websites, researchers say.S2
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Online ads helped deliver Israeli spyware to devices visiting Al Jazeera, 120,000 websites
Its services gave Candiru, a spyware company blacklisted by the US government, and other surveillance firms access to advertising platforms run by Google, Comcast, Russia's Yandex,…
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Israeli ad company helped a spyware firm target Al Jazeera through online ads, researchers say
An Israeli ad company, DiscoverTech, has for years been secretly helping spyware developers place their hacking software on popular websites, researchers say.
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Published Oct 15, 2026
What to know
- Its services gave Candiru, a spyware company blacklisted by the US government, and other surveillance firms access to advertising platforms run by Google, Comcast, Russia's Yandex, and others.S1
- An Israeli ad company, DiscoverTech, has for years been secretly helping spyware developers place their hacking software on popular websites, researchers say.S2
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