Ads for earbuds carried spyware onto 45 Al Jazeera computers, the first proven case of its kind, in the same years Israel hunted down the network's journalists.
Underhand, malign, scheming, vicious and cowardly. The Israelis cannot confront anyone on a fair playing field. Snake- like and insidious (which is actually unfair to snakes) they worm their way in through the back door. They kill children, doctors, journalists… and when they are outnumbered or at risk of getting hurt, they run.
@onlinesafety @projectsaltbox @christianortiz @taylorlorenz I'm thinking about the implications of this for online & digital safety recommendations. Why & how can an entity use an unclicked ad to spy on users?
That must send chills down your spine Ahmed - it's so invasive, creepy and perverted!
It's yet another horror in the annals of this horrifying regime's actions. Israel's response to zero-click spyware being blacklisted, saying it is critical to its foreign policy is chilling - a policy born of a malign, malevolent, depraved-indifference-to-human-life and suffering. As ominously stated by one of its psychopathic thugs at the end of the recently released pager war-crime investigative report, the reach of its 'devices' are everywhere; it's an existential threat to humanity not a risk.
Underhand, malign, scheming, vicious and cowardly. The Israelis cannot confront anyone on a fair playing field. Snake- like and insidious (which is actually unfair to snakes) they worm their way in through the back door. They kill children, doctors, journalists… and when they are outnumbered or at risk of getting hurt, they run.
@onlinesafety @projectsaltbox @christianortiz @taylorlorenz I'm thinking about the implications of this for online & digital safety recommendations. Why & how can an entity use an unclicked ad to spy on users?
Can't seem to click those links Carol sadly.
Here's some info on how this works: Cyber Security News 0 click spyware infects devices.
Thank you. That link also didn’t carry over. Looks like Wired covered it. https://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-scenario-zero-click-spyware-is-infecting-phones-via-targeted-ads/
Trying to mention relevant Substacks here: @Tate Jarrow of @Tate's Online Safety Substack (https://onlinesafety.substack.com/) , @Michael Wriston and Em Chapin of @Project Salt Box (https://www.projectsaltbox.com/) , @Zacatecho of @ZacaTechO’s Decolonial Wake Up Call (https://christianortiz.substack.com/) & @Taylor Lorenz of @User Mag (https://www.usermag.co/).
They lie, cheat, steal, kill, rape and get away with it over and over again. Something's got to change, and soon!
Their behavior is as vile as it gets.
Important awareness. Thank you. I think those people are afflicted with orgasmic levels of schadenfreude.
That must send chills down your spine Ahmed - it's so invasive, creepy and perverted!
It's yet another horror in the annals of this horrifying regime's actions. Israel's response to zero-click spyware being blacklisted, saying it is critical to its foreign policy is chilling - a policy born of a malign, malevolent, depraved-indifference-to-human-life and suffering. As ominously stated by one of its psychopathic thugs at the end of the recently released pager war-crime investigative report, the reach of its 'devices' are everywhere; it's an existential threat to humanity not a risk.
Soon, all our computers/phones will be infected with Israeli spyware..