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An Apple representative said that the company has alerted potential victims of highly targeted mercenary spyware in 150 countries.
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There were 58 total. The good news: Detection and disclosure of zero-day exploits have increased, the research team says.
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When Apple announced Nov. 23 that it filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, it claimed that the firm and its clients “devote the immense resources and capabilities of nation-states to conduct highly targeted cyberattacks.” An independent analysis published Wednesday backs that claim up. Google Project Zero researchers Ian Beer and Samuel Groß took a deep dive into FORCEDENTRY, the malware developed by NSO Group that allowed adversaries to infect targeted Apple devices — without the owner’s knowledge — with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The researchers concluded that it’s “one of the most technically sophisticated exploits” they’ve ever seen, rivaling “those previously thought to be accessible to only a handful of nation states.” Previous iterations of the Pegasus software required the victim to click a link in an SMS message. But FORCEDENTRY was an example of NSO Group’s zero-click exploitation technology, where no interaction from the target was […]
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Fake heads! (Cue dystopian scifi music.) Continue reading iOS 15 launches with 22 documented security patches – including a Face ID bypass using a “3D model”