The attacks struck phones with iOS15 and early versions of iOS16 operating software.
It’s the latest sign of NSO’s ongoing efforts to create spyware that penetrates iPhones without users taking any actions that allow it in. Citizen Lab has detected multiple NSO hacking methods in past years while examining the phones of likely targets, including human rights workers and journalists.While it is unsettling to civil rights groups that NSO was able to come up with multiple new means of attack, it did not surprise them.
Given the financial and legal fights NSO is involved in, Marczak said it was an open question how long NSO could keep finding or buying new exploits that are effective.As NSO’s prominence has made it a symbol of government-level hacking, its repeated high-profile targeting has exposed it to researchers who are learning more of its tricks.
“NSO adheres to strict regulation, and its technology is used by its governmental customers to fight terror and crime around the world,” Bruck said by email.
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