Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices ...

Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, says the lab now has “concrete technical ...

Usually, people have to click on links or files to install spyware, but this method doesn’t require any interaction at all.

Simply viewing an online advertisement can be enough to infect a device with powerful spyware, without the user clicking, ...

Israeli advertising firm Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to track people and install spyware to their devices, as per ...

An Israeli spyware company hacked into the devices of Al Jazeera journalists through infected online ads that did not need to ...

A newly disclosed, confirmed zero-click mercenary spyware infection was delivered through targeted online advertising, ...

Online advertising campaigns infected devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware without requiring targets to click anything.

Finally, Microsoft’s free PowerToys earns a spot on every PC I buy and use. Available freely from the Microsoft Store and ...

Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click ...

Citizen Lab found targeted ads delivered Candiru spyware to Al Jazeera devices without clicks, while the same ad system ...

On October 15, 2026, the University of Toronto's cybersecurity research institute, Citizen Lab, published the results of an ...