To spy on a human rights activist, hackers allegedly connected to a Middle Eastern government used three previously unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS.
The claims — from research at Toronto-based Citizen Lab and mobile security firm Lookout — focus on spyware that targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the United Arab Emirates.
Earlier this month, Mansoor received an SMS text message on his iPhone claiming to offer “new secrets” about tortured detainees in his country. However, inside the message was a link that, once clicked, can infect an iPhone with spyware, using three zero-day exploits of iOS, the research found.
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