Israeli Spyware Threats to Privacy

Imagine the phone you're holding right now being hacked without you clicking

anything. You're scrolling the news, and an advertisement appears.

That alone is enough for an Israeli spyware company to get inside your device.

Citizen Lab and Confion have now uncovered how Israeli company Discover Teq

turned ordinary online advertisements into a delivery system for

spyware. Researchers analyzed four billion

advertising records

and found Discover Teq adverts across more than 120,000

websites and 70,000 apps in four months.

Using a platform called Controlium, a targeted phone could be infected

simply by the advertisement appearing on your screen without clicking it.

The spyware included technology developed by Candiru, an Israeli company

blacklisted even by Washington in 2021.

Researchers linked the operation to attacks targeting at least 45 Al

Jazeera devices in 2024 and 2025. Yet

Discover Teq remains an approved Google advertising vendor until this

month. Particularly for activists and journalists documenting Israeli crimes

in the

region and abroad, a compromised phone can lead to a

multitude of

vulnerabilities. It could expose confidential sources,

private

conversations, and entire networks of contacts,

and of course, your own

sensitive and private information.

That information can be used to disrupt, intimidate, or blackmail people

globally, or even worse, particularly in this region, target

for assassination. Spying on people around the world through

their devices has

become an increasingly unabated tactic abused by the Zionist entity

while receiving no legal or political repercussions for it,

with a new story

coming out every few days. In findings published earlier this month,

Polish prosecutors revealed that their country's security services

never had full

control over Pegasus, the Israeli spyware bought by Poland's

previous government. The Israeli manufacturer retained control

of the infection

server while surveillance data left Poland.

So even allied governments purchasing this technology could not protect its own

citizens from Israeli surveillance.

In Serbia this Monday, researchers have also reported

that university rector

Vladan Djokic had his phone infected with Pegasus during student-led

protests. The same investigation identified a number

of student

activists also targeted by the spyware.

These cases show how Israeli surveillance technology reached a wide range of

targets: journalists, activists, political opponents, and even their own

allies, with no international effort to stop it

whatsoever.

Israel is the greatest threat to your individual security,

and your government will

do nothing to protect you.