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!
@serenesupreme15@RealCandaceO I watched the show so I know what context she “laughed”! So I’m not gonna try defend nothing! Y’all don’t want to see things for what they are! Carry on!
@serenesupreme15@RealCandaceO Which part of the coverage was her laughing! She said it’s not a pendamic!!!! And it isn’t, doesn’t mean it’s not tragic!
Today is Episode 400! 🎉
-We have more never before seen footage from 9/10 and can exclusively reveal some curious details regarding Mikey McCoy, Nate Walker, and Princess Neff.
-Frank Turek publishes a book about 9/10. Once again, his memory of the car ride has slightly shifted.
-We finally identify Charlie’s driver.
Join us LIVE!
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@GMbugo78515@EsoShaggy Somehow I knew that when one studies theology, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek are top of the list coz the ancient texts are in those languages!!!!
@RealCandaceO Let’s not forget he also said Candace is going to lose it when Charlie was pronounced dead, AT THE HOSPITAL! That was HIS first thought??? Before the “gunman” before everything!!!
Wow! Just seeing how many of you guys have already watched this Theo Von episode. Thank you guys so much for all of the love. I’m glad we could brighten up your day and make you guys laugh.
Theo is the best.
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Today’s episode will be an absolute MUST WATCH:.
Finally, the exact mechanism revealing how the “Pro-Erika” and “Anti-Candace” online campaigns are being funded, is exposed.
And you are going to be positively shocked to learn who is behind it.
You will also feel spiritually sickened to learn when exactly these funded campaigns began. “Wine moms” can rejoice. Your instincts were correct, again.
But what we have discovered is actually really terrifying for our country.
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@samsfamreacts@AnaEscobarShow We agree in covering you Ana with Psalm 91, may the Lord Jesus Christ disappoint every ill intention towards you we pray, Amen!
If you pretended to be a friend of Charlie Kirk but conveniently decided not to cover the UVU independent review and what it revealed about his organization we are comfortable never hearing from you ever again.
Thank you for attention to this matter!