A failed attempt to enter the iPhone of an Arab activist by a software spy hitherto unknown led to a global update of Apple’s operating system for mobile devices, researchers said on Thursday.
spyware takes advantage three weaknesses previously unknown in the Apple operating system for mobile in order to take full control of the iPhone, according to reports released Thursday by Lookout, a security organization for smartphones based in San Francisco, and Citizen Lab, a group of internet monitoring. According to both reports, the author of the spyware is NSO Group, an Israeli company.
“has never been caught before the author of the threat,” said Mike Murray, a researcher at Lookout, who described the program as “the package more sophisticated spyware that we have seen in the market.”
reports Lookout and Citizen Lab, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs of the University of Toronto, detailed how an iPhone could be completely helpless 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 programmers who found the way to do it.
a defenseless and 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 stored on the device.
Arie van Deursen, software engineering professor 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”.
must be updated urgently
Based on the foregoing, Apple released an update that is available on each of the devices (from iPhone 4 onwards) now globally. You just have to go to “Settings”, then “General” and there “Software Update”. Any device with iOS version 9.3.4 or earlier, thus updated to version 9.3.5, which already has solved this vulnerability.
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