9/13/2021- 6:02 p.m.
Israeli Group Zero-Click Spyware Access Forces Apple to Issue Emergency Update
A flaw that allows the highly invasive Pegasus spyware from Israel’s NSO Group to INFECT anyone’s iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac computer without so much as ONE CLICK – has compelled Apple to announce emergency software updates for the critical vulnerability on Monday.
Researchers from Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog at the University of Toronto, discovered the “zero click remote exploit” while analyzing a Saudi activist’s iPhone that had been infected with Pegasus.
The zero-click exploit, called FORCEDENTRY, targets iMessage – once exploited Citizen Lab said the “NSO Group used the vulnerability to remotely exploit and infect the latest Apple devices with the Pegasus spyware.”
The watchdog believes that FORCEDENTRY has been in use since at least February 2021.
