15 October 2026 - 18:21

Category: IT Fail

Now Online Ads Hack You Without Clicks

Ordinary web adverts managed to infect Al Jazeera staff with zero-click Candiru spyware. Brilliant, now users do not even have to click.

Now Online Ads Hack You Without Clicks. Ordinary web adverts managed to infect Al Jazeera staff with zero-click Candiru spyware. Brilliant, now users do not even have to click.

Source: The Hacker News

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Severity: High Mood: Concerning

Why do we even bother training users when ordinary web advertisements now deploy zero-click Candiru spyware directly into newsrooms. This lovely bit of surveillance affected Al Jazeera staff who did not even have the courtesy to click a dodgy link first. To protect ourselves from this invisible headache, we are forced to aggressively block online ad traffic and harden network boundaries, since merely existing on the internet is apparently now an unpatched security vulnerability.

#ZeroClickJoy #AdTechPain
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