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Starlink users heavily surveilled by alleged Israeli spy firm — company served ads to geolocate users and spy on…

An Israeli company is alleged to have launched a spy campaign using malicious ads targeting Starlink users
The ads do not have to be clicked on, just served to the user to begin collecting data
The ads were served to Starlink users across more than 100 countries

An alleged Israeli spy firm has been spotted snooping on Starlink users on an industrial scale by a digital defense firm.

These are the conclusions of research by Trend Micro’s AI cybersecurity unit TrendAI, whose researchers analyzed troves of digital advertising data. The research found that Israeli company Discover-Tech was the number one bidder on Starlink advertising traffic.

The surveillance was targeted at Starlink units across more than 100 countries - including regions with Starlink restrictions - and used malicious adverts to harvest user data across browsers and applications.

Starlink users surveilled by ads

Initially, TrendAI did not directly name Discover-Tech as the...

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Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Bluesky is blocking users from opening links to a newly leaked archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, and labels the pages “malicious.” The files include people’s email addresses and phone numbers, “shared without their authorization,” Bluesky tells WIRED, in violation

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Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records