Israeli Firms Placed Spyware on Al Jazeera Devices via Ads

Citizen Lab researchers found that two Israeli companies manipulated online advertisements to install surveillance software on dozens of Al Jazeera devices.

3 publishers · 5 articles · first seen 14 Oct 2026 · updated 22d ago

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3 publishers have covered this in 5 articles since 14 Oct 2026. Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera published first, on 14 October at 16:51 UTC; Bloomberg Technology followed 17h 09m later. The most recent article, from Times of India, appeared on 16 October at 01:46 UTC.

Outlets reporting it: Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera (major outlet), Bloomberg Technology (major outlet), Times of India.

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