Internet related News · 2021-08-25

NSO Pegasus software used to spy on activists through iOS vulnerability


Citizen Lab researchers discovered that the zero-click attack exploited the latest iPhone software at the time, both iOS 14.4 and later iOS 14.6, which Apple released in May. The hacks also circumvent a new security feature in iOS 14 called BlastDoor, which is supposed to prevent these kinds of device hacks by filtering malicious data sent over iMessage.


NSO Pegasus software used to spy on activists through iOS vulnerability – siliconangle.com

A new report claims that software from Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. was used by the Government of Bahrain to spy on various people by exploiting vulnerabilities in iOS.
The report, from Citizen Lab, claims that Bahrain used NSO software between June 2020 and February…

Link: NSO Pegasus software used to spy on activists through iOS vulnerability
via siliconangle.com

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