https://hackingpassion.com/tags/online-advertising/Recent content in Online Advertising on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenMon, 19 Oct 2026 11:44:53 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/discover-tech-zero-click-spyware-ads/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:44:53 +0200https://hackingpassion.com/discover-tech-zero-click-spyware-ads/<p><strong>Spyware got onto Al Jazeera devices through an ad that only had to load on the screen.</strong> 45 were targeted, and the owners did nothing wrong. The company behind the ad ran code on <strong>120,768 websites, approved by Google for six years</strong>.</p> <p>On October 15, two teams published the same finding on the same day. Researchers at the Citizen Lab in Toronto and the ad-security company Confiant laid out the first clear proof of something security people had warned about for years: spyware that lands on a phone or a laptop through an ordinary online ad. <strong>There was no link to click and no file to download.</strong> They gave it a name, AdFection.</p>