Citizen Lab calls this particular exploit ForcedEntry for its ability to skirt Apple’s BlastDoor protections. But also the exploit broke through new iPhone defenses that Apple had baked into iOS 14, dubbed BlastDoor, which were supposed to prevent silent attacks by filtering potentially malicious code. The breach was significant because the flaws exploited the latest iPhone software at the time, both iOS 14.4 and later iOS 14.6, which Apple released in May. NSO used real people’s location data to pitch its contact-tracing tech.Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware.A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple’s iPhone security protections.Pegasus gives its government customers near-complete access to a target’s device, including their personal data, photos, messages and location. Last month, Citizen Lab said the zero-day flaw - named as such since it gives companies zero days to roll out a fix - took advantage of a flaw in Apple’s iMessage, which was exploited to push the Pegasus spyware, developed by Israeli firm NSO Group, to the activist’s phone. The technology giant said iOS 14.8 for iPhones and iPads, as well as new updates for Apple Watch and macOS, will fix at least one vulnerability that it said “may have been actively exploited.”Ĭitizen Lab said it has now discovered new artifacts of the ForcedEntry vulnerability, details it first revealed in August as part of an investigation into the use of a zero-day vulnerability that was used to silently hack into iPhones belonging to at least one Bahraini activist.
APPLE SECURITY BREACH MESSAGE ON IPHONE UPDATE
Citizen Lab, which discovered the vulnerability and was credited with the find, urges users to immediately update their devices. Apple has released security updates for a zero-day vulnerability that affects every iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
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