According to a report from the University of Toronto Civic Laboratory, two Israeli companies Candiru and Discover Tech manipulated online advertisements to install surveillance software on Al Jazeera's devices. Discover Tech uses an online advertising platform to target and infect devices and disguise itself as a legitimate advertising agency to run ads through several major ad networks, including those operated by Google. Using ads to run spyware and hack into phones and computers is a recent development. Researchers warned that the online advertising ecosystem poses a security threat and called on cybersecurity agencies and regulators to launch an urgent investigation.

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