Don_Ponchito retweeted
Im not sure why this isn't a bigger cyber security story- are we all compromised?
An ad appears on your screen.
You don't click it.
Doesn't matter.
Spyware is already inside your device.
Citizen Lab just published the first documented proof.
Called it AdFection.
An Israeli ad-tech company called Discover-Tech ran the operation.
Controlium is their platform.
Here's how it works.
Ad network profiles you. Uses your advertising ID. Your IP address. Your cookies.
Builds a fingerprint.
Then Controlium serves a targeted ad.
The moment the ad loads. Not clicked. Just rendered.
The device makes a connection to Discover-Tech servers.
Which immediately connects to Candiru spyware servers.
Exploit fires. Spyware installs. You never knew the ad existed.
Al Jazeera was the confirmed target.
45 journalist devices. Infected between 2024 and 2025.
Controlium had a list of IP addresses and ad IDs that matched their staff.
Served them invisible ads.
Which delivered invisible spyware.
Discover-Tech's ads appeared on 120,000 websites.
75,000 apps.
10 million impressions per day.
Across 161 countries.
Reaching NATO. The UN. EU institutions. US Department of Defense.
All potential targets.
Google certified Discover-Tech for six years.
Listed them as an approved vendor.
Didn't catch anything.
Only cut ties after Citizen Lab published.
citizenlab.ca/research/expos…
The ad network was the spyware delivery system.
No one was monitoring it because ad networks aren't supposed to do this.
So no one thought to look.
Don_Ponchito retweeted
Yeah so download ad blockers if you haven't already. ATP it's quite literally for your safety.
Incase you missed it yesterday, an Israeli marketing firm used website ads to distribute spyware created by Israeli developer Candiru and all it took for it to infect people’s phone was visiting a website with the infected ads on it and then allowing the ad to load on the page.
There are potentially hundreds of millions of people with Israeli spyware on their phones right now and they have no clue.
Don_Ponchito retweeted
She’s just aware of who her father really is.
Don_Ponchito retweeted
Si los israelís se sienten tan empoderados para atacar a un cuerpo diplomático europeo y a medios con cámaras grabándoles, se imaginan lo que se sienten capaces de hacerle a la gente palestina cuando nadie más les ve?
Don_Ponchito retweeted
I keep forgetting that Charlie is a huge Link Click fan like that was truly the jumpscare of all time LMFAOOOOOOOOO
Don_Ponchito retweeted
Netanyahu’s father was born in Poland. His grandfather was born in Russia. Their family name is originally Mileikowsky.
Don_Ponchito retweeted
to my int oomf, italy is dying.
south italy has been on complete strike for weeks now, farmers are on strike, truck drivers are on strike, grocery stores are EMPTY, there’s no gas at gas stations.
there’s a gigantic censorship going on, and the north (like myself) found out about


















































