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An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads

156 points • by drewfax • today at 5:01 PM • 48 comments • view on HN

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ferguess_k • today at 5:56 PM

My question is, why is Israel so good at this? It seems to be at least the 4th cyber power of the world, after the US, Russia and China, if not actually on par or better.

I guess it is because it has been under the threat of larger enemies from its birth, so it must leverage whatever it has to survive. And once you grow an organization and let it loose, you don't have much control over it anymore, and it grows in the wild like a flower.

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roscas • today at 6:31 PM

"Researchers also recommend that users at high risk of targeting use ad blockers, disable ad tracking, and regularly reset mobile ad IDs.". Not "recommend". Everyone must use uBlock Origin or at least some type of ad blocker in every device.

Then also mandatory pi-hole on every house.

Even if you are used by Windows OS, you must use an adblocker. Even if you use Chrome. On every browser.

ChrisArchitect • today at 5:12 PM

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103000

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