Lessons Learned From ‘AdFection’ and What To Do Next

October 26, 2026 · 5:28 pm 1 sources

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• Lessons Learned From 'AdFection' and What To Do Next
  This article was originally published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (CC BY). · October 26, 2026 17:28
  Last week, researchers at Citizen Lab revealed a horrifying new malware campaign, dubbed “AdFection.” It used an ad network to distribute spyware to journalist’s devices to infect them without the target ever needing to click anything. This sort of attack on journalists is dangerous and incredibly…