WhatsApp Bug Anchors Targeted Zero-Click iPhone Attacks
A "sophisticated" attack that also exploits an Apple zero-day flaw is targeting a specific group of iPhone users, potentially with spyware.
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A "sophisticated" attack that also exploits an Apple zero-day flaw is targeting a specific group of iPhone users, potentially with spyware.
Neither security issue requires user interaction; and one of the vulnerabilities was used to unlock a student activist's device in an attempt to install spyware.
The emerging threat actor, potentially a Chinese state-sponsored APT, is using the known exploit kit Moonshine in cross-platform attacks that deliver a previously undisclosed backdoor called "DarkNimbus" to ethnic minorities, including Tibetans.
Private spyware vendors were behind nearly half of all zero-day exploits in Google products since 2014.
Malicious attachments that exploit an RCE flaw from 2017 are propagating Agent Tesla via socially engineered emails and an evasive infection method.
The Israeli company developed highly-targeted, mobile malware that would make any APT jealous.
The exploit is one of many that government and intelligence agencies have to infect target devices with the notorious surveillance tool.