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.
That’s… not the point. No ad today is a “simple text” block. It’s tons of JS (I’ve seen ads pull in 50-70kB of packed/minified JS), high res graphics and animations, videos, and so on.
I responded to the wrong thread but thanks for sharing lol.