Analyzing The ForcedEntry Zero-Click iPhone Exploit Used By Pegasus

Citizen Lab has released a report on a new iPhone threat dubbed ForcedEntry. This zero-click exploit seems to be able to circumvent Apple's BlastDoor security, and allow attackers access to a device without user interaction...

Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic

Spyware developed by the company NSO Group is back in the news today after Apple released an emergency fix for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. The update fixes a vulnerability silently exploited by software called Pegasus, which is often used in high-level surveillance campaigns by...

Apple Issues Emergency Fix for NSO Zero-Click Zero Day

Apple users should immediately update all their devices – iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches – to install an emergency patch for a zero-click zero-day exploited by NSO Group to install spyware. The security updates, pushed out by Apple on Monday, include iOS 14.8 for iPhones and iPads, as wel...

Linphone SIP Stack Bug Could Let Attackers Remotely Crash Client Devices

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about a zero-click security vulnerability in the Linphone Session Initiation Protocol SIP stack that could be remotely exploited without any action from a victim to crash the SIP client and cause a denial-of-service DoS condition. Tracked as...

Zero-Click iPhone Exploits

Citizen Lab is reporting on two zero-click iMessage exploits, in spyware sold by the cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group to the Bahraini government. These are particularly scary exploits, since they dont require to victim to do anything, like click on a link or open a file. The victim receiv...

The Stealthy iPhone Hacks That Apple Still Can't Stop

After another “zero-click” attack, security experts say it's time for more extreme measures to keep iMessage users safe...

Pegasus Spyware Uses iPhone Zero-Click iMessage Zero-Day

A never-before-seen, zero-click iMessaging exploit has been allegedly used to illegally spy on Bahraini activists with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab. The digital researchers are calling the new iMessaging exploit FORCEDENTRY. In a report published on...

Researchers: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Should Spark Bans, Apple Accountability

News of a zero-click zero-day in Apple’s iMessage feature being incorporated into the notorious Pegasus mobile spyware from NSO Group has drawn a variety of reactions from the security community, including concerns about the security of Apple’s closed ecosystem, and varying views on NSO Group’s...

Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone

This is an impressive hack: Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click security vulnerabilities in an open-source software component ConnMan used in Tesla automobiles that allowed them to compromise parked ca...

iOS / iPadOS 14.5 Updates: Identify Assets Requiring Update and Take Remote Action with VMDR for Mobile Devices

Apple recently released iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 which include a security update that addresses almost 50 vulnerabilities including several critical RCE and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Qualys recommends security teams to immediately update all devices running iOS and iPadOS to the lates...

Linux Kernel 5.4 BleedingTooth Remote Code Execution

/ BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution by Andy Nguyen theflow@ This Proof-Of-Concept demonstrates the exploitation of CVE-2020-12351 and CVE-2020-12352. Compile using: $ gcc -o exploit exploit.c -lbluetooth and execute as: $ sudo ./exploit targetmac sourceip sourceport ...

Apple iOS 14 Thwarts iMessage Attacks With BlastDoor System

In an effort to prevent attacks from being launched via its iMessage feature, Apple has debuted a security service called BlastDoor in iOS 14, its current mobile operating system version. First detailed in an analysis this week by Google Project Zero’s Samuel Groß, BlastDoor acts as a “tightly...

New iMessage Security Features

Apple has added added security features to mitigate the risk of zero-click iMessage attacks. Apple did not document the changes but Groß said he fiddled around with the newest iOS 14 and found that Apple shipped a "significant refactoring of iMessage processing" that severely cripples the usual...

Google uncovers new iOS security feature Apple quietly added after zero-day attacks

Google Project Zero on Thursday disclosed details of a new security mechanism that Apple quietly added to iOS 14 as a countermeasure to prevent attacks that were recently found to leverage zero-days in its messaging app. Dubbed "BlastDoor ," the improved sandbox system for iMessage data was...

A Look at iMessage in iOS 14

Posted By Samuel Groß, Project Zero On December 20, Citizenlab published “The Great iPwn”, detailing how “Journalists were Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit”. Of particular interest is the following note: “We do not believe that the exploit works against iOS 14 and...

Zero-Click Apple Zero-Day Uncovered in Pegasus Spy Attack

Four nation-state-backed advanced persistent threats APTs hacked Al Jazeera journalists, producers, anchors and executives, in an espionage attack leveraging a zero-day exploit for Apple iPhone, researchers said. The attack, carried out in July and August, compromised 36 personal phones belonging...

iPhones of 36 Al Jazeera journalists hacked with NSO’s zero-click spyware

By Deeba Ahmed Citizen Lab researchers claim the spyware was delivered silently through iMessage. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: iPhones of 36 Al Jazeera journalists hacked with NSOs zero-click spyware...

iPhones of 36 Journalists Hacked Using iMessage Zero-Click Exploit

Three dozen journalists working for Al Jazeera had their iPhones stealthily compromised via a zero-click exploit to install spyware as part of a Middle East cyberespionage campaign. In a new report published yesterday by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, researchers said personal phones of 36...

iPhones of 36 Journalists Hacked Using iMessage Zero-Click Exploit

Three dozen journalists working for Al Jazeera had their iPhones stealthily compromised via a zero-click exploit to install spyware as part of a Middle East cyberespionage campaign. In a new report published yesterday by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, researchers said personal phones of 36...

Cisco Reissues Patches for Critical Bugs in Jabber Video Conferencing Software

Cisco has once again fixed four previously disclosed critical bugs in its Jabber video conferencing and messaging app that were inadequately addressed, leaving its users susceptible to remote attacks. The vulnerabilities, if successfully exploited, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to...