The researchers revealed on Thursday that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with Spyware made by Paragon. Apple says it has corrected the error used to lose their phones.
The Citizen workshop wrote in his report, shared with TechCrunch before her publication, that Apple had told her researchers that the defect she had in the attacks was “mitigated on iOS 18.3.1”, an informed software for iPhones released on 10 February.
Until this week, the advice of this security update referenced Only an irrelevant defect, which allowed attackers to turn off an iPhone safety mechanism that makes it more difficult to unlock the phones.
On Thursday, however, Apple Updated Counseling on February 10 To include details of a new defect, which was also determined at that time, but not made public.
“There has been a reasonable issue when elaborating a misused photo or video shared through an iCloud link. Apple knows a report that this issue may have taken advantage of a highly sophisticated attack on specific targeted people,” the counseling advisory said.
In the final edition of its report published ThursdayThe citizens’ workshop has confirmed that this is the defect used against Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and an anonymous “prominent” European journalist.
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It is not clear why Apple did not reveal the existence of this repaired defect up to four months after the release of iOS briefing, and an Apple spokesman did not respond to request for comments seeking clarity.
The Paragon Spyware scandal began in January, when Whatsapp announced about 90 of its users, including journalists and human rights activists, that they had targeted the Spyware made by Paragon, named Graphite.
Then, at the end of April, several iPhone users received a notice from Apple who warned them that they were the goals of Mercenary Spyware. The notice did not report Spyware behind the hacking campaign.
On Thursday, the citizen workshop posted his findings Confirming that two journalists who had received that Apple’s notice has been tired with Paragon’s Spyware.
It is not clear if all Apple users who received the notice had also targeted with graphite. Apple’s notice said that “today’s notice is sent to users who are infected with 100 countries”.
