One of the more significant that there are tricks to penetrate a iPhone was unveiled across © s of a simple text message.
Some security researchers announced Thursday August 25 that they had discovered a new malware for the iPhone that serves for attackers to see virtually everything that happens on your iPhone. They tracked the spy software to a company called Israeli NSO Group.
NSO publicly sells software that, according to them, can trace the telà a mobile phone © personaâ € | and many of its clients are governments
simultaneously . Apple issued a update to iOS 9.3.5 in which these vulnerabilities are repaired. The company recommends that anyone using an iPhone immediately update your operating system.
Users with the beta version of iOS 10 also © n can repair dà © Biles points with the most recent version.
Be ± Alaron researchers apparently there are governments that have used the NSO software to spy on journalists and human rights workers.
They used false domains to try to disguise groups legÃtimos as the Red Cross, news organizations and large technology companies.
Ahmed Mansoor, an activist for human rights, He received a message from text suspect on August 10. The next day contenÃa He received another link in which information is prometÃa on detainees in prisons in the United Arab Emirates.
As it is not the first time they try I hack, the dissident known reenvió messages to a researcher at the Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada.
The Citizen Lab is alió with Lookout, a company of mobile security, to investigate. Together they confirmed that they had discovered an advanced spyware that took advantage of three previously unknown security flaws in the IOS.
If you had clicked on the link, Mansoor would have installed inadvertently malware that would have served to whoever sent him had full access to their communications.
The combination of vulnerabilities that it is known as Trident, allowing the attacker to access the camera, the microphone and the locale of the iPhone. You can intercept messages and e electrónicos, download the calendar and contacts information and see the passwords ± as stored on the iPhone. You can record your phone calls and messages WhatsApp and Viber, plus access communication applications such as iMessage, Gmail, Facebook, Skype and Line.
” informó us this vulnerability and repair it immediately with iOS 9.3.5. we recommend all our customers who always download the most recent version of iOS to protect against any potential security threat “, reported Fred Sainz, spokesman Apple said in a statement.
NSO Group denied having knowledge of this particular trick.
“The company only sells to government agencies authorized and fully with the strict laws and export control regulations “Sea ± aló Dahbash Zamir, spokesman NSO said in a statement it complies.
“In the contracts signed with customers of the company requires that the company’s products are used legally. Specifically, the products can only be used to prevent and investigate crimes.”
Source: Expansion.mx
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