Online ads infected targets with Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks

Citizen Lab has uncovered targeted advertising campaigns that infected devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware without requiring users to click anything. The researchers call the technique “AdFection” and describe their findings as the first public technical confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered through targeted ads. The investigation identifies Israeli advertising company Discover-Tech as the intermediary ……

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Skynet is no longer a fictional adversary. Attackers have built an offensive agent that exploits unprotected AI models on the web with a ‘Skynet’ directive that allows them to run unattended for up to 100,000 steps. In this mode, a reference to the humanity-destroying artificial neural network-based superintelligence system in the Terminator film franchise, the agent can kick off tools, scan for and infect targets, d…

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