Iphones hacking: Apple continues a known company

Posted on November 26, 2021, 06:37

Apple CEO, Tim Cook, delivered the main speech at the 2020 Apple (WWDC) developer conference at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.

Apple brought a legal action on Tuesday against NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells government agencies and software order forces allowing them to hack iPhones and read the data they contain, in particular messages and othercommunications.

At the beginning of the year, Amnesty International said that he had discovered recent model iphones belonging to journalists and lawyers specializing in human rights who had been infected with the malicious software of NSO Group, called Pegasus.

Apple requests a permanent injunction to prohibit NSO Group from using Apple software, services or devices.It also requires damages above $ 75,000.

Apple considers this legal action as a warning to other spy software providers."The measures taken by Apple today will send a clear message: in a free company, it is unacceptable to use powerful spy software commanded by states against innocent users and those who seek to make the world better," saidIvan KRSTIC, head of engineering and security architecture at Apple, in a tweet.

NSO Group software allows "attacks, including on the part of sovereign governments that pay hundreds of millions of dollars to target and attack a tiny part of the users with information with special interest in NSO customers"Declared Apple in the complaint filed before the Federal Court of the Northern District of California, saying that it is not a "malicious ordinary public software".

Apple also said on Tuesday that it has corrected the flaws that allowed NSO Group software to access private iPhones using "zero-click" attacks where the malicious software is issued by a text message and leaves little tracesinfection.

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Pegasus users can remotely monitor the activities of the owner of the iPhone, collect emails, text messages and navigation history, and access the microphone and camera of the device, said Apple in its trial.

Apple said that attacks only targeted a small number of customers, and she said on Tuesday that it would inform iPhone users who may have been targeted by Pegasus malicious software.

"To transmit Forcedentry to Apple devices, the attackers created Apple ID identifiers to send malicious data to the device of a victim - allowing NSO Group or its customers to transmit and install the PEGASUS spy software tothe victim's knowledge, ”said Apple in his press release."Although they were used to disseminate Forcedentry, Apple servers were not hacked or compromised during these attacks".

NSO Group has created Apple ID accounts and violated the ICLOUD service conditions to exploit its spy software, said Apple Apple.

NSO Group is accused of using "0day" bugs to create its spy software, that is to say flaws that Apple has not yet corrected.As soon as Apple corrects a feat, it is no longer a 0day and users can protect themselves by updating the software of their iPhone.

At the beginning of the year, Amnesty International said that he had found evidence of the hacking of the iPhone 12 and obtained a disclosed list of 50,000 telephone numbers targeted by NSO Group software.NSO Group's software would have been used to monitor the parents and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist of the Washington Post killed in Turkey by assassins working on behalf of Saudi Saudi Arabia.

Amnesty International also declared that it had discovered the malicious software of NSO Group on the iPhones of a French lawyer specializing in human rights, a French activist, an Indian journalist and a Rwandan activist.

At the beginning of the month, the American Ministry of Commerce scored NSO Group on a black list, prohibiting it from using American technologies as part of its activities.Meta, formerly known as Facebook, also continues NSO Group separately, which would have contributed to the piracy of WhatsApp, a subsidiary of Meta.

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Apple said that it would donate $ 10 million, as well as all damages arising from the trial, to organizational organizations on digital surveillance.

"Thousands of lives have been saved worldwide thanks to NSO Group technologies used by its customers," said a spokesperson for NSO Group in a press release."Pedophiles and terrorists can act freely in technological harass, and we provide governments with legal tools to fight them.NSO Group will continue to defend the truth.»»

Lucas GauvinDiplômé de l’école d’ingénieur informatique 42, Lucas est un véritable touche à tout de l’informatique : code, objets connectés, hébergement… Le Hardware comme le Software n’ont (presque) aucun secret pour lui.Les derniers articles par Lucas Gauvin (tout voir)

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