Astrid Perry is a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab. She is a human rights lawyer responsible for bringing novel cases to the English courts, litigating against states and corporations including Saudi Arabia for using Pegasus on a U.K.-based dissident, Shell for environmental damage in the Niger Delta, and Amazon for their surveillance of workers.
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Exposing AdFection Executive Summary
This is an executive summary for our report “Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware.”
Exposing AdFection
How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover Discover-Tech, and show how the company helps mercenary surveillance vendors track and hack devices around the world.
Uncovering Webloc
An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone’s life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.
