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Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Re: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Post by saberience »

Let's assume this is how Bezos's phone was hacked for a second, does anyone think Trump would do anything about it? Sanction Saudia Arabia? Trump didn't lift a finger after the Jamal Khashoggi killing and his son-in-law is deep in various business dealings with MBS and his goons. Hell, Trump is probably happy the Saudis are hacking the phone of his perceived "enemy".

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Post by danso »

> This analysis found it “highly probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post.

Any more information on how this type of attack works? Is it a vulnerability in Whatsapp, or was whatsapp just the delivery platform?

Re: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Post by nopriorarrests »

danso wrote: post #3

> This analysis found it “highly probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. Any more information on how this type of attack works? Is it a vulnerability in Whatsapp, or was whatsapp just the delivery platform?

first paragraph: The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian.

So, not snapchat, but whatsapp. And it's quite surprising for me. So, Saudis have 0 days which work on whatsapp on iphone (I suppose Bezos uses iphone)? I mean, FB and AAPL, which both can afford tens of billions in security research, were pwned by saudi 0day? hmmm...

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Post by shyn3 »

nopriorarrests wrote: post #5
danso wrote: post #3

> This analysis found it “highly probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. Any more information on how this type of attack works? Is it a vulnerability in Whatsapp, or was whatsapp just the delivery platform?

first paragraph: The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian. So, not snapchat, but whatsapp. And it's quite surprising for me. So, Saudis have 0 days which work on whatsapp on iphone (I suppose Bezos uses iphone)? I mean, FB and AAP…

My guess is this gave them the ability to access anything WhatsApp could access with a code bug in the application and so maybe a Facebook issue more than an Apple issue.

Re: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Post by spzb »

nopriorarrests wrote: post #5
danso wrote: post #3

> This analysis found it “highly probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. Any more information on how this type of attack works? Is it a vulnerability in Whatsapp, or was whatsapp just the delivery platform?

first paragraph: The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian. So, not snapchat, but whatsapp. And it's quite surprising for me. So, Saudis have 0 days which work on whatsapp on iphone (I suppose Bezos uses iphone)? I mean, FB and AAP…

Wouldn't be that surprising. Zero days are available to the highest bidder and Saudi princes have deep pockets.

Re: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Post by danso »

nopriorarrests wrote: post #5
danso wrote: post #3

> This analysis found it “highly probable” that the intrusion into the phone was triggered by an infected video file sent from the account of the Saudi heir to Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post. Any more information on how this type of attack works? Is it a vulnerability in Whatsapp, or was whatsapp just the delivery platform?

first paragraph: The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian. So, not snapchat, but whatsapp. And it's quite surprising for me. So, Saudis have 0 days which work on whatsapp on iphone (I suppose Bezos uses iphone)? I mean, FB and AAP…

Thanks, I did make an error and I quickly edited Snapchat to Whatsapp, but didn't note it initially since no one had replied at that point.

Re: Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Post by Nextgrid »

shyn3 wrote: post #6
nopriorarrests wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

first paragraph: The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, sources have told the Guardian. So, not snapchat, but whatsapp. And it's quite surprising for me. So, Saudis have 0 days which work on whatsapp on iphone (I suppose Bezos uses iphone)? I mean, FB and AAP…

My guess is this gave them the ability to access anything WhatsApp could access with a code bug in the application and so maybe a Facebook issue more than an Apple issue.

If WhatsApp was given photo library access (which isn't unlikely considering you need it to send previously taken photos) then the exploit could access all his photos without a vulnerability on Apple's part.
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