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Citizen Lab's Kate Robertson argues in a Globe & Mail piece that Canada's proposed Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act) would weaken national cybersecurity. If passed, the bill would let the government require surveillance capabilities to be built into any communications technology in Canada. Covered products could include smartphones, smartwatc…
The Citizen Lab reported on October 19 that the iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2026. The finding came six days before Serbia's October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-clic…
Citizen Lab reported the first publicly confirmed zero-click mercenary spyware attack delivered through targeted online ads, a technique it calls "AdFection". The Israel-based adtech firm Discover-Tech allegedly acts as a front and middleman between the advertising ecosystem and spyware vendors. Citizen Lab traced attacks on at least 45 A…
Citizen Lab documented AdFection, a campaign in which the Israeli-founded ad firm Discover-Tech delivered zero-click mercenary spyware attributed to Candiru through the online advertising ecosystem. During 2024 and 2025, 45 devices belonging to Al Jazeera were targeted. Citizen Lab calls this the first detailed public technical evidence o…
Citizen Lab reports that Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network through targeted online advertisements, in a zero-click attack that only required the malicious ad to render on the victim's device. Citizen Lab calls the technique AdFection and says its report is the first public technical confirmation of merce…
