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Citizen Lab Puts Evidence Behind an Advertising Attack
· New York time
Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak said the team's findings supplied concrete technical evidence of targeted ads being used to identify and automatically hack targets. The group described the AdFection case as the first public confirmation of this zero-click mercenary-spyware delivery method. The novelty claimed is public confirmation, rather than the first moment anyone suspected such a technique. That distinction gives the research its significance: a debated attack route has a documented example, according to the investigators. Advertising technology has long promised measurable results. This is a measurement nobody should want included in the campaign recap.
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