Israeli espionage through online advertising

Two research groups announced that Israel's digital advertising agency, known as "Discover Tech," spied on Internet users through a vast network of online advertisements that it used to track targets and help hack their devices.

Two research groups announced that Israel's digital advertising agency, known as "Discover Tech," spied on Internet users through a vast network of online advertisements that it used to track targets and help hack their devices.

The agency's services provided the Zionist Kandiro company, a spy company blacklisted by the US government, as well as other Zionist surveillance companies, with access to Google-managed advertising platforms to spy on Internet users.

According to Ambassador Arjan, the reports show how the online advertising business, which has long been the subject of privacy concerns, can also serve as a conduit for widespread espionage campaigns.

"The way online advertising works today is a systemic security threat," Wolfy Christel, a senior researcher at the Canadian Citizen Lab Institute, told Reuters. For states, the private sector, civil society and anyone else. Discover Tech's online ads, often for common products like phones or headphones, reach more than 120,000 websites and 75,000 apps through various partnerships.

The researchers also said that Discover Tech could identify and track users who visited sites or used apps with malicious ads, and sometimes tried to extract the phone numbers of some smartphone users.

According to this report, software companies abused the online advertising system to hack phones and computers and infected dozens of them. The technology has targeted officials from various institutions, including NATO, the European Commission, and chip manufacturers.

This technology was developed to process trillions of transactions and turn them into a secret surveillance tool. This spyware does not require any interaction from the victim to install.

Google has removed Israeli company Discover-Tech from its advertising platforms for systematic policy violations. Many of these people were employed in the public sector or institutions related to critical infrastructure in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Researchers said Discover-Tech used these ads to create user profiles.