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Title: iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Used for Hacking Journalists’ iPhones
Post by: HCK on December 21, 2020, 04:05:16 pm
iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Used for Hacking Journalists’ iPhones

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A new report details that in July and August 2020, NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used to hack the phones of 36 journalists, producers, and anchors at Al Jazeera. The iPhones were hacked using a zero-click iMessage exploit and an exploit chain dubbed KISMET. It even worked on the iPhone 11 running iOS 13.5.1 — the very latest release of iOS 13 at that time.
 
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