Apple made an emergency update the operating system of its smartphones to neutralize a sophisticated threat : Pegasus , an espionage program created by an Israeli company , which was discovered when he attacked the iPhone a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates, news AFP.
iPhones and spy on victims distance, collecting information applications like Gmail, Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Calendar, FaceTime, Line, Mail.Ru and others," explained the Lookout a note on your blog.
It is, they say, a spy program named Pegasus, created by Israeli company NSO Group. The attack works as a "phishing": send a user a message with a link to a site that looks legitimate but is designed to quietly infect the device with a spy system.
The blog describes a highly customizable program depending on the country and functions requested by the buyer: you can allow access to the camera, the microphone or device geolocation, message content, calls and a series of communications applications.
The spy program NSO was discovered after Ahmed Mansoor, an activist of the human rights of the United Arab Emirates, have received a suspicious message with a link to the internet and have alerted the Citizen Lab, the newspaper USA Today.
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