Urgent iPhone update issued after spyware discovered that gives hackers access
Apple on Monday advised all users to update their devices after researchers warned that the Israeli spyware company NSO Group had developed a way to take control over nearly any Apple computer, watch or iPhone.
“It’s absolutely terrifying,” said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at The Citizen Lab, which recently discovered the software exploit and notified Apple about it. The group published a report about it Monday.
The malicious software takes control of an Apple device by first sending a message through iMessage, the company’s default messaging app, and then hacking through a flaw in how Apple processes images. It is what’s known in the cybersecurity industry as a “zero-click” exploit — a particularly dangerous and pernicious flaw that doesn’t require a victim clicking a link or downloading a file to take over.
People whose devices have been exploited are extremely unlikely to realize they’ve been hacked, Scott-Railton said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/urgent-iphone-update-issued-after-spyware-discovered-that-gives-hackers-access/ar-AAOp03A