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The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab reported that mercenary hackers used targeted advertisements to deliver zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on iOS and Android devices.
The research team stated that the campaign, which they named AdFection, is likely the first confirmed instance of zero-click mercenary spyware distributed through ads.
The attack method required no interaction from the target. Malware installed simply by loading a website or opening an installed application.
Citizen Lab researchers noted that these infections are invisible unless users employ special forensic hardware or software to detect them.
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