science This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads.
Lol, no. This has been like the most common attack vector against web browsers since like forever. Back in the days, installing an ad-blocker was considered a very tangible way to protect yourself against hacking attempts. Today we try to focus more on actually making the web browsers themselves secure, which is a better solution, but ads remain a very attractive way to be able to inject your exploit code into an otherwise trusted website.