{"id":1045327,"date":"2026-10-28T07:27:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045327"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:04:08","slug":"alleged-israeli-spy-company-heavily-targeted-starlink-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/alleged-israeli-spy-company-heavily-targeted-starlink-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of Starlink&#8217;s satellite internet service in a likely effort to spy on them, according to six people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Starlink service and that the ads were likely being used to geolocate or otherwise surveil them, according to the six people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of Starlink&#8217;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&#8217;s Starlink service and that the ads were likely being used to geolocate or otherwise surveil them, according to the six people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045334,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045327\/revisions\/1045334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}