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Researchers say an Israeli firm targeted Starlink users with ads that could reveal their location

Trend Micro’s TrendAI unit says Discover-Tech was among the biggest sources of ads shown to satellite-internet users.

By Rational Times Technology Desk · 1 min read

TrendAI, a unit of the cybersecurity company Trend Micro, has concluded that the Israeli company Discover-Tech was heavily targeting users of Starlink satellite internet, likely in order to spy on them, Reuters reported.

According to the findings, Discover-Tech was among the biggest sources of advertisements shown to Starlink users, and those ads may have been used to work out users’ locations.

Why ads can be a tracking tool

Online advertising systems pass information about the device and connection requesting an ad. Researchers have repeatedly warned that buying ad placements can give a well-resourced actor a way to identify and locate specific groups of users — a technique sometimes called “adint”, or advertising intelligence.

Rational Times has not independently verified the findings.

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Sources

  1. Just Security — Early Edition, 27 October 2026 (citing Reuters)
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