A failed attempt to enter the iPhone of an Arab activist using software spy hitherto unknown has led to a worldwide operating system upgrade mobile Apple, researchers said on Thursday.
the software spy exploits three weaknesses previously unknown in the operating system mobile Apple, to take full control of the iPhone, according to published reports Thursday Lookout , an organization based in San Francisco, and Citizen Lab , a group monitoring the Internet.
Both reports pointed to Group NSO , an Israeli company, as the author of software spy .
reports Lookout and Citizen Lab , located at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, detailed how an iPhone could be completely compromised when touched with just one finger, a coveted trick in the world of cyber espionage that an agent such programs said last November paid a reward of one million dollars to programmers who found the way to do it.
This would give hackers full control of the cell, allowing them to listen to their calls, save your messages, activate their cameras and microphones, and download the personal information on the device.
Arie van Deursen, a professor of software engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, said that both reports are credible and disturbing. The expert in forensic matters Jonathan Zdziarski described the malicious program as “a dangerous spyware”.
Apple said in a statement that resolved the vulnerability immediately after learning of its existence, but the failure would have followed without remedy if it were not for the suspicion of a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates.
Ahmed Mansoor, known for his activism in its field, alerted Citizen Lab about spyware, after receiving a strange text message on August 10.
the mysterious message included a suspect at the end link, promised to reveal details about torture in prisons in United Arab Emirates .
Mansoor had doubts. To him they had not only imprisoned, beaten, robbed and seized his passport for years, had also been in the midst of cases of eavesdropping.
In fact, Mansoor already had the dubious distinction of attacks have fought two different commercial spy software. And when he shared the suspect message Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak, they realized that he had been the victim of another attack.
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