![]() ![]() A UN panel of human rights experts suggested in August that internationally agreed-upon regulations for the use of Pegasus spyware that NSO Group is subject to may be the only answer to curbing its abuse. The zero-click exploit that this recent security update closes off is a new development, and a very worrying one. ![]() Apple security update pegasus software#The software has existed for about a decade now, and has rotated through various exploits that it seems to have obtained private access to through one means or another. The security update from Apple closes a very serious hole, but it is very unlikely to put Pegasus out of business. The recent exposure of 50,000 phone numbers linked to targets of NSO Group customers was all people needed to see right through what NSO claims. Their proactive statements about the Citizen Lab is just another attempt at maintaining this narrative in the media. Other disturbing incidents documented by the project include the tracking of political dissidents in India and Hungary, and a mass of tracked numbers in Mexico that may be tied to drug cartels illicitly obtaining access to the Pegasus spyware.Īccording to Hank Schless, Senior Manager (Security Solutions) at Lookout: “NSO has maintained the stance that the spyware is only sold to a handful of intelligence communities within countries that have been thoroughly vetted for human rights violations. These included the family of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The project documented the hacking of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, activists and government opposition party members among other clear non-criminal targets. It is unknown which NSO client deployed the malware that Citizen Labs intercepted, but NSO Group has a long and troubling history of selling the Pegasus spyware to bad actors around the world.Īside from the investigations by Citizen Labs, the other major reporting on the Pegasus spyware this year came from the “Pegasus Project” headed up by Amnesty International and French journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories. Pegasus spyware tied to bad actors around the globe Recent investigative reports have found that to be far from the case, with an established pattern of Pegasus spyware appearing in the hands of everyone from dictatorships to Mexican drug cartels. Sold by the Israel-based NSO Group, the spyware is supposed to only be sold to democratic governments using it for legitimate law enforcement purposes. Apple security update pegasus pdf#Earlier this month, Citizen Labs was able to capture the exploit on a target phone (belonging to a Saudi political activist) and named it “FORCEDENTRY.” The zero-click exploit made use of Apple’s image rendering library to infect devices upon receipt of a message with a malicious PDF attached, even if the message was not actively opened and viewed.Īpple’s security update puts an end to this flaw, which Citizen Labs believes the Pegasus spyware has been actively exploiting since February of this year. Security update puts an end to iMessage zero-click exploitįorensic investigations of a number of phones believed to be targeted by Pegasus spyware have turned up signs of an iMessage zero-click exploit in recent months. Many of these involved iMessage, the target of the zero-click exploit that the recent security update addressed. ![]() There is some question as to how long it will last, however, as the Pegasus spyware has already cycled through several previously undiscovered exploits. ![]()
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