An Israeli surveillance technology firm has run a large-scale operation to infect mobile phones with spyware using online advertisements to hack the devices, researchers said on Thursday.
Here is a bit more information that might help, I posted this in privacy too.
“Zero click” means you’ve already given something permission to run on your device.
In this case, the ad network had permission to run scripts on the device, and they abused that privilege to run scripts that could install spyware.
People like us who have always blocked active scripts and ads aren’t vulnerable to most of these “zero click” attacks because we already distrust the mechanisms they abuse.
It’s why I prefer my email and texts to be pute text too, with no automation set to take action based on incoming unvetted content.
An excellent point, I disable loading email images in every client I use, even if for no other reason than not giving them a way to recognize that the email was read and subsequently list me as a live target.
Man I am really starting to hate the internet more each day.