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- Dozens of journalists and other employees at Al Jazeera reportedly had their iPhones hacked by foreign governments using a "zero-click" iMessage exploit.
- According to researchers from The Citizen Lab, the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to spy on the journalists.
- The iMessage exploit doesn't appear to persist in iOS 14 and beyond.
In part, Apple built its name on privacy and security, but not even the most secure platforms are immune to breaches. On Sunday, the Guardian reported that dozens of iPhones used by Al Jazeera journalists were hacked using spyware that was allegedly purchased from Israel's NSO Group, which produces it.
Researchers from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab believe clients of the Israeli technology firm -- including the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- hacked their personal phones using "an invisible zero-click exploit" in iMessage that could be exploited up until at least iOS 13.5.1. The Citizen Lab researchers assert that the 36 phones "were a miniscule fraction of the total attacks leveraging this exploit."
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Dozens of journalists had their iPhones hacked using an iMessage flaw originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 18:18:03 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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