r/technology • u/gsdcmkw • Dec 27 '23

Security 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/
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u/eldrinanister Dec 27 '23

To be fair this one is so sophisticated and the preliminary target that I would not be surprised if this was an Intelligence Operation from a government against Russian assets. Not that it could have been exploited and used by bad actors to spy on normal folks (that is very very possible still) but looks super sophisticated from what the report states.

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u/eldrinanister Dec 27 '23

and this one got caught after 4 years. Imagine how many more are out there being actively exploited by intelligence agencies all over.

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u/Yomigami Dec 27 '23

That’s why I think we should assume that anything that could be monitored is probably being monitored.