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https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/07/27/How-The-United-Arab-Em...
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/01/can-this-israeli-star...
What other 0-days do they have in their pockets?
Does anyone know if the iOS 10 developer beta 7 (public beta 6) got this patch, or are we vulnerable?
This vulnerability sounds like this: https://www.zerodium.com/ios9.html It was claimed November of last year. I wouldn't be surprised if this "Trident" was sold by Zerodium. Glad it's patched. Edit: I just saw the Citizen Lab article on this: https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-ipho... They mention the Zerodium bounty as well.
Article mentions that there are indications this was in the wild as far back as iOS 7, suggesting this isn't directly linked to that Zerodium bounty.
The article mentions how this may have been use all the way back in iOS 7 which is crazy. If you are being targeted for surveillance smartphones are a very bad idea depending on your adversary. A cheap phone that is refreshed regularly will probably be your best bet.
Amazing work by Lookout and Citizen Lab. Until this point I was not aware that Lookout provided any value-add for mobile devices. I was under the impression it was the McAfee of mobile. It sounds mean but this is the first reference to actual vulnerability discovery done by themselves on their blog, which usually reports on security updates that Google's Android security team discovered. Previous entries include such…
An untethered stealth jailbreak that installs without user interaction from a webview, that's almost as bad as it gets. And for iOS 7.0.0 - 9.3.4 inclusive. And with exfiltration of audio, video, whatsapp, viber, etc etc. So thorough and so bad :-/
Short of being triggered completely in the background by an UDP packet, what's worse than this?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
FTA: It appears that the company that provided the spyware and the zero-day exploits to the hackers targeting Mansoor is a little-known Israeli surveillance vendor called NSO, which Lookout’s vice president of research Mike Murray labeled as “basically a cyber arms dealer.” Phineas Fisher, we need you now.
So we have cyber arms dealers now. I continue to be amazed at the prophecies of William Gibson. Makes me wonder if there's anything to "remote viewing." Did he just look forward into the 21st century and write down what he saw? :) BRB, gonna go slot me an icebreaker...
See https://www.zerodium.com/program.html
Someone who discovers/developers a remote Jailbreak like this can apparently sell it for a cool half-million.
The UAE really hates on activists, and appears to be hiring a bunch of people specifically to suppress activists/dissidents within the country. [1] Unfortunately, due to the amount of wealth the country has, it won't stop almost anybody from dealing with them unless Western sanctions are placed on the country, which are unlikely given the current geopolitical situation. https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/07/27/How-The-U…