Spyware Hack via Ads Requires No Clicks

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and cybersecurity firm Confiant identified a zero-click mercenary spyware attack named AdFection. Dozens of devices at Al Jazeera were compromised through malicious ads purchased by Discover-Tech. The ads infected nearly 200,000 websites and apps in dozens of countries by transmitting user IP addresses to servers without user interaction.