Google Project Zero security researchers studied the Pegasus iPhone hack closely, concluding it’s incredibly sophisticated and terrifying.
“We haven’t seen an in-the-wild exploit build an equivalent capability from such a limited starting point, no interaction with the attacker’s server possible, no JavaScript or similar scripting engine loaded, etc.,” Project Zero’s Ian Beer and Samuel Groß told“There are many within the security community who consider this type of exploitation — single-shot remote code execution — a solved problem.
If that’s not enough, ForcedEntry built a virtual computer of sorts that ran “within a strange backwater of iMessage,” per. That’s because malware needs to converse with a command-and-control center that would send up instructions. This behavior made the attack even harder to detect. Again, Pegasus did not require any input from the user. The attacker only needed a phone number or Apple ID to send the payload via iMessage. No message would show up on the screen. The iPhone hack would succeed as soon as the invisible message hits the iPhone. The target would have no idea someone broke into their iPhone from then on.
“It’s pretty incredible and, at the same time, pretty terrifying,” the Project Zero researchers said of ForcedEntry. iPhone users running the latest iOS versions have anti-Pegasus protections in place. That doesn’t mean similar security companies have stopped devising spying tools for iPhone, just that the ForcedEntry attack will no longer work on devices running the latest software.about the hack. If you were wondering whether someone had spied on you with Pegasus, you’d have known by now.
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