Researchers in the field of cybersecurity have revealed the results of their investigation into dangerous vulnerabilities in iPhone security that allowed users to be eavesdropped on for four years. This discovery was made by Kaspersky Lab, which noticed that some employees’ smartphones were infected with a malicious software called Triangulation. It turns out this is the most advanced exploit in history, utilizing four zero-day vulnerabilities in the system.
What is most concerning is that the software infected dozens of smartphones within Kaspersky Lab alone. According to the Russian company, the main targets of the attack were politicians and diplomats from other countries who had visited Russia as part of diplomatic missions over the past few years.
The attack could have been directed at any iPhone, as all it took was sending a malicious message through iMessage to turn it into a listening device. The infection was possible without any interaction from the message recipient. The infected smartphones could record sound, take photos, gather location information, and collect other sensitive data, which was then sent to the hackers’ servers. The only limitation was that the attack had to be repeated if the phone was turned off and on again.
It is unclear who discovered this vulnerability and what method was used to exploit it. However, experts believe that it must have been the work of someone who was familiar with the internal structure of the iPhone, as the vulnerabilities were found in an undocumented hardware function. Fortunately, users of iPhones running iOS 17 are currently completely safe from this type of attack.
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