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Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

Web page · https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware

First seen by Oriel on .

Metric trends

Last 30 days · Up to 120 recorded samples per source and metric · First and latest retained

Points

Score reported by the source.

  • Hacker News: 49, latest observation ; +39 over observed period since

Comments

Comment count reported by the source.

  • Hacker News: 10, latest observation ; +9 over observed period since

Aliases

SourceExternal IDURL
Hacker News50131881https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech