BREAKING: Israeli spyware is confirmed on our phones. This should be headline news but none of our mainstream media is covering it, of course. So we will. An Israeli ad company called Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to plant spyware on people’s devices, and nobody had to click anything. The ad just had to load on a website or inside an app for you to be infected. Citizen Lab and the ad security firm Confiant published the findings yesterday. Researchers went through roughly 4 billion ad-bidding records and found Discover-Tech ads running on more than 120,000 websites and 70,000 apps between March and June of this year. Confiant says the company was serving at least 10 million ads a day. The platform was called Controlium. According to Citizen Lab, it let spyware companies use ad auctions to profile and unmask users, then send an infected ad to the one person they wanted to hack. The ads were also pulling cookies and login tokens from the sites they ran on. Israeli corporate records list Dekel Boni as the company’s founding director and sole shareholder. The main spyware customer was Candiru, the Israeli firm the U.S. government blacklisted in 2021, which now goes by Integrity Labs. Five years after that blacklisting, it was still reaching devices through ad inventory on Google, Comcast-owned Beeswax and Russia’s Yandex. Google had Discover-Tech on its approved vendor list from 2020 until this week. At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025. Candiru’s 2021 shareholder filings reportedly listed a minority investor described as a proxy for Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Qatar also funds Al Jazeera. If that holds up, Qatari state money was sitting inside the company whose spyware was later aimed at Qatar’s own news network. The heaviest targeting was in the Palestinian territories, where Discover-Tech served almost 2% of all digital ads and about 10% on April 7. Traffic also reached the Armenian prime minister’s office, courts, universities and defense organizations. Google and the other ad platforms cut Discover-Tech off after the report came out. What nobody has answered yet is who paid for the ad buys, and how a company working with a U.S.-blacklisted spyware vendor passed vendor review for six years. I am going to look into this today to see if we can figure out who was buying the ads. Interesting timing considering my article yesterday.... Here's what to do to protect yourself: (1) Use an ad blocker. Citizen Lab calls ad-blocking a cybersecurity best practice and says there is no consistently safe way to be exposed to targeted ads. On iPhone, add a Safari content blocker. On Android, use Brave or Firefox with uBlock Origin. Ad blockers only work in your browser, not inside apps, so it also helps to delete free ad-supported apps you don’t need. Kill your advertising ID. (2) iPhone: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.” Then Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising, and turn Personalized Ads off. (2) Android 12 or later: Settings > Privacy > Ads > Delete Advertising ID. Then in Settings > Google > All Services > Privacy & security > Ads > Ads privacy, turn off Ad topics and Ad measurement. (3) Windows 11: Settings > Privacy & Security > General, and turn off personalized ads using your advertising ID. (4) Update your phone and restart it often. Many zero-click exploits don’t survive a reboot, so a daily restart forces attackers to reinfect you. Stay tuned!

So many of you asked me to look into ClipIt, the company paying people by the view to post political clips. I did, and it connects to Israel’s $55.5 million American campaign, Trump’s former campaign manager, Turning Point and the operatives working for the Speaker of the House. A few highlights are below, and the full article with receipts is up on Substack now (link in bio, and it’s free). (1) The man who runs ClipIt goes by “Matt Servius” online and has never been publicly named. Wyoming and Latvian records point to Matīss Tabūns, a 23-year-old in Talsi, Latvia, who formed ClipIt’s American company on May 28, 2025, with a one-dollar stake. (2) Fourteen days later, on June 11, Brad Parscale formed Clock Tower X. It went on to register as Israel’s foreign agent. (3) ClipIt’s own records label a campaign “Political” for December 14 to 21, the week of AmericaFest. In those same days, Clock Tower X took in $6 million from Israel. (4) ClipIt’s campaigns kept Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson out of their clips. Israel’s campaign websites attacked both of them by name. (5) Israel’s campaign made its own clip titled “Charlie Kirk,” and its contract appears written to collect repost rights to content made by outside influencers. (6) Everyone keeps asking who paid. ClipIt paid its clippers from a $20 million crypto wallet that traces back to Stripe’s stablecoin system, and one clipper thanked the boss for his “Political Payout of December.” That means an American company has the name of whoever ordered the political payouts, and that record can be subpoenaed. (7) ClipIt rewrote its terms the day before The Atlantic’s story ran. Then it changed its founding year and blocked visitors from the United States. (8) Israel’s campaign sent $4.4 million for “media placement” to a firm run by Mike Shields. His other firm has been paid $2.98 million by Speaker Mike Johnson’s campaign. (9) Parscale’s Israel firm uses the same Ohio office suite as his company’s White House contract. (10) Turning Point denies working with ClipIt. But, it has paid Jake Hoffman’s firms millions a year, and Hoffman ran Turning Point’s 2020 teen troll farm. The attack operation on X reeks of Jake Hoffman's troll famrs Enjoy the article!

Let's kick some midterm fun off with the great state of Texas and a super PAC that didn’t exist before September. But in its 17 days of existence has spent $131 million to save one man. That works out to more than $7.7 million a day. It is called "Texas PAC", it was set up by Senate Republican leadership in Washington, and the man it is trying to save is Ken Paxton. Let's follow the money on some of the candidates in the top races this midterm season. Starting with, Texas. Senate Race: Paxton tells Texans his wealth sits in a blind trust he doesn’t control. I pulled the deeds from five states. He buys each property in his own name, signs the mortgage himself, and then deeds it to the trust, sometimes in the same minute. Turns out the trustee is Charles Loper III, a donor who gave money toward Paxton’s criminal defense and spent years suing the two men set to testify against Paxton in his securities fraud case. Four county tax offices now mail that trust’s bills to a $1.5 million Frisco house bought in February through a trust created the same day. And Paxton votes from a different county. He earns $153,000 a year. He and his trusts hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million. He paid $1.6 million for an Oklahoma lodge that rents for up to $1,200 a night, listed it at $100,000 to $250,000 on his federal disclosure, and reported no rental income. And this week the Wall Street Journal published video of him ringing in 2025 in Dubai with men who had been federally charged six months earlier in a $15 million hospital fraud. One of them had given Paxton’s campaign $165,000. Texas voters gave James Talarico more than $68 million, mostly in small checks. Washington answered with nine figures for Paxton. Just looking at the money, it is pretty clear that Washington is buying Paxton. House Races: Now let's look at some House races, starting with Laredo, because Texas Democrats have their own problem, and his name is Henry Cueller. Not only did Cueller cross to party lines to vote yes to warrantless spying on Americans at 2am, but he is top 5 worst Congressmen currently (IMO). Let's look at why. In 2022 the FBI raided his home and campaign office. In 2024 federal prosecutors charged him and his wife with taking about $600,000 in bribes from an oil company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank based in Mexico City. Prosecutors said the money moved through sham consulting contracts into shell companies in his wife’s name, and that in return he agreed to push U.S. foreign policy for Azerbaijan and pressure federal officials on behalf of the bank. He co-chaired the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus. Before his trial, three people pleaded guilty: his former campaign manager, a longtime consultant, and a Houston woman who admitted acting as an unregistered agent of Azerbaijan. The first two admitted helping launder more than $200,000 in bribes from the Mexican bank to the Cuellars. He never went to trial. Why you ask? Well because in December 2025 "his daughters wrote to Trump asking for a pardon", and Trump pardoned him and his wife. Yep, Trump pardoned a corrupt Democrat. House Democrats gave Cuellar his Appropriations seat back, and the House Ethics investigation into him has never been closed. He denies everything, and he is leading in the polls. Pretty insane honestly. The rest of the Texas House map is no cleaner, honestly. In TX-35, a seat redrawn to flip red, the Republican nominee is a sitting congresswoman’s brother, and outside PACs are outspending both candidates. In TX-23, the seat is open because the congressman resigned after an affair with an aide who later died. In TX-15 and TX-34, two incumbents are fighting in districts Republicans redrew specifically to take them out. Basically, both parties are asking Texans to look away. Texas may be one of the clearest instances of the "uniparty" I've seen yet. So, you should pay attention to the candidate, not the party. Find every candidate, every donor, and everything you need to know about your candidates at midterms.theleahfiles.com