Spyware infects journalists through unclicked ads, Palo Alto firewall zero-day exploited, OpenAI engineer charged with bugging exec room
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Spyware infects journalists through unclicked ads, Palo Alto firewall zero-day exploited, OpenAI engineer charged with bugging exec room

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 202610 min
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Zero-Click Spyware Ads, Palo Alto Firewall Zero-Day, Critical Drupal Flaw, and OpenAI Bugging Charge Cybersecurity Today Host David Shipley reports on Citizen Lab findings that Israeli spyware maker Candiru, now reportedly rebranded as Integrity Labs, used targeted online ads bought through DiscoverTech's Controlium platform to profile and, in some cases, zero-click infect Al Jazeera journalists' devices, with ad-bid records showing broad reach across nearly 200,000 sites and apps and extensive profiling of sensitive networks; Google and IAB Europe have cut off DiscoverTech. The episode also covers active exploitation of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS management interface zero-day...

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Spyware delivered through ads nobody clicked on. Palo Alto's firewalls are under attack. A critical Drupal flaw with no fix for more than a quarter of all sites. And an open AI engineer is charged with bugging the room where executives met.

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This is Cybersecurity Today for Friday, October 16th, and I'm your host, David Chippley. Let's get started. An ad you never clicked on could be a weapon. Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto says Israeli spyware maker,

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CanDiru, broke into the devices of Al Jazeera journalists through online ads that didn't require a single click. The Globe and Mail reports the 72-page report, published Thursday, calls this the first public technical confirmation

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