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An Israeli advertising agency used its massive ad network to spy on users and pass their information off to a spyware company blacklisted in the United States, according to reports.
Summary
Digital advertising agency, Discover-Tech, granted Israeli surveillance groups, including blacklisted firm Candiru access to advertising platforms on Google, Comcast, Russia’s Yandex, and other search engines, according to reports released Thursday by New York advertising security firm Confiant and Canada-based cyber watchdog group, Citizen Lab. Discover-Tech’s ads were used to track targets and even help hack into their devices, the reports indicate. In 2021, Candiru was blacklisted in America by the...
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Perimeter infrastructure like VPNs, firewalls, and routers needs the same ongoing scrutiny as anything user-facing, it's frequently the oldest, least-monitored layer of the stack, and a popular target precisely because of that.
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