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Hacks iPhone without a single click: Apple users face a dangerous new virus

A virus has appeared that hacks the iPhone without a single click. The publication told about the new Pegasus malware and protection against it with the BBC.

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Scientists from the Citizen Lab University in Toronto (Canada) have discovered a new type of spyware that hackers use to hack the Apple operating system, including its latest devices, using the so-called “zero click” method - that is, without any action on the part of the user, it is enough to receive only a certain message on a smartphone (the virus does not even need the victim to open it - it is already on the device).

Pegasus can unnoticed by the victim of an attack read his SMS and e-mail, turn on the microphone and phone camera, find out the user's location, and copy personal data.

In March, scientists received the iPhone of one of the Saudi dissidents (the name was not disclosed), the analysis of which showed that the smartphone was broken with the help of a new Pegasus update developed by the Israeli company NSO Group.

Neither the existence of this program, nor the vulnerability to it is news to Apple.

An independent expert group from Citizen Lab has long established that Pegasus makes hacks through the messenger iMessage. According to them, the problem affects all systems of the company: Apple iOS, macOS and WatchOS.

But now scientists have managed to take possession of a piece of the malicious program's code, which has helped to understand the mechanism of its operation.

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Apple handed over its considerations to Citizen Lab in early September, and on Tuesday the company announced the release of iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 crash patches to patch security holes in the operating system.

Cybersecurity experts say Apple's collaboration with Canadian scientists and early security development is critical to developing more robust data protection systems.

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At the same time, they assure that the majority of Apple users have nothing to worry about, because attacks with the use of such spyware are usually targeted against specific individuals.

The Pegasus program was originally developed by the Israeli company NSO Group for the Israeli intelligence services.

But, as journalists from 17 of the world’s largest publications found out in a general investigation called “Project Pegasus,” later the program began to be used for surveillance by the intelligence services of at least 10 countries.

The findings of the investigation were published in July this year.

They said that dozens of governments of different countries and hundreds of companies that purchased the Pegasus program for their own needs became NSO Group's clients.

The company initially denied this, but in a recent comment to Reuters, NSO Group officials said they would continue to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world technology to fight terrorism and crime.

Israel's Defense Ministry said Israel allows cybersecurity products to be sold only to government agencies and only to fight criminals and terrorists.

However, back in the summer, the Parisian nonprofit Forbidden Stories and the human rights organization Amnesty International gained access to a list of possible victims of surveillance.

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It contains more than 50 telephone numbers, the owners of which include journalists, dissidents, top managers of large companies, businessmen, opposition politicians, as well as officials from a number of countries and representatives of the royal families of Arab states.

According to experts, the fight against spyware is almost endless: for each new security program from tech giants, virus developers come up with new workarounds.

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