Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users

WASHINGTON: Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of Starlink’s satellite internet service in a likely effort to spy on them, according to six people familiar with the matter.

Researchers at TrendAI, a unit of Tokyo-based cybersecurity company Trend Micro, concluded the Israeli company Discover-Tech was one of the biggest sources of digital ads shown to users of SpaceX’s Starlink service and that the ads were likely being used to geolocate or otherwise surveil them, according to the six people.