Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads
Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads
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Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads
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Advertising is malware.
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I caught the COVID from the Yellow Pages! It's a Communist plot!
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Yet more evidence that aggressive adblocking is cyber security.
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"Stop making the data collection profitable, and this goes away. If behavioral advertising were banned, the industry wouldn't exist."
I’m holding my breath.
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If cocaine were banned the industry wouldn’t exist
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That feels like a pretty big false equivalency. There's a huge consumer demand for cocaine, that's the whole reason cartels exist.
No consumer wants behavior driven marketing, it's forced on them for the benefit of companies. If ads were outlawed right now, I doubt you'd find any communities online trying to get bootleg ads working on their machine lol
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"If you're not willing to spread your computer's asscheeks to let Israeli spyware into your home, you're a pirate and I hate you." - Linus Sebastian (probably)
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"I'm sorry for the Israeli spyware comment I made earlier. It was insensitive, but they offered me $200 for it, what was I supposed to do? It was the right move and I stand by it."
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As usual, excellent stock photo enhancing the story here.
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Is it necessary to click on the ad? Or is it enough to go to the web page where the ad is displayed?
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I think the implication is zero-click exploit.
But if that's the case it should be fairly simple to reverse engineer whichever exploit they're using.
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Adblocker, VPN /wireguard, Firewall and my little brother knows Linux! Ha! I'm safe!
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I love Linux, but don't assume you aren't vulnerable to malware because you use it. There's plenty of Linux malware these days, since so many servers run Linux.
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I gOTz NuTING to HIdE
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It's an interesting twist. Sherlock seems designed to use legal data collection and digital advertising technologies — beloved by Big Tech and online media — to target people for government-level espionage. Other spyware, such as NSO Group's Pegasus or Cytrox's Predator and Alien, tends to be more precisely targeted.
So . . . It’s just “digital customer engagement” and all the other euphemisms for online stalking, it’s just that the intent is pre-stated to be nefarious. Hm.
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Israeli company legally allowed to produce and sell digital spycraft, only to verified western nations, has clients of dodgy and murderous origin. News at 11.
I wonder if Jamal Khashoggi would still have been brutally hacksawed into individual bits in an embassy if not for Pegasus.
Call me crazy but I have my doubts.
Jamal Khashoggi didn't have Pegasus on his phone though? and his wife didn't have it until after the murder. The assassination was an old school plot to lure him to a location where the Saudi team had diplomatic immunity I thought.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-used-to-target-family-of-jamal-khashoggi-leaked-data-shows-saudis-pegasus
Thanks for the info. I supposed Pegasus was used as well. Still simply cannot believe something that brutish and evil went completely unpunished. Shameful.
He still got hacked nonetheless 🤷
While I appreciate the correction, I'm not sure it changes much when they hacked and spied on those closest to him to find out the information they needed, rather than hacking him directly. I wonder if they couldn't hack him, did and wiped the infection once he showed up to the embassy, or if he was just that careful and constantly changed or didn't use smartphones or give his number out.
It's like your crazy paranoid neighbor who heard you talking shit about him once doesn't want to directly hack your Ring cam so they know when you're coming and going everyday, instead they just hack the rest of the neighbors so they know when you're coming and going everyday. Is there a meaningful difference?
We should be sanctioning Isreal for fostering an environment where this happens. This is not ok.