Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware

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Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware

TechCrunch · Oct 15, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.

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