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.

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    3 days ago

    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.