Zero-click iMessage exploit was used to spy on journalists
Apple loves to tout how its iPhone is the most secure smartphone on the planet. They recently spoke about how their smartphones are the “most secure consumer mobile device on the market”… right after researchers discovered a zero-click iMessage exploit used to spy on journalists internationally. Amnesty International published a report the other day that was peer reviewed by Citizen Lab , and the report confirmed that Pegasus — the NSO Group -made spyware — was successfully installed on devices via a zero-day, zero-click iMessage exploit. The researchers discovered the malicious software running on an iPhone 12 Pro Max device running on iOS 14.6, an iPhone SE2 running iOS 14.4, and an iPhone SE2 running iOS 14.0.1. The device running iOS 14.0.1 did not require a zero-day exploit. Last year, a similar exploit was employed (dubbed KISMET) which was used on iOS 13.x devices, and the researchers at Citizen Lab noted that KISMET is substantially different from techniques employed
