According to a notice published Thursday on the website of the US group, the update (iOS 9.3.5) applies to the iPhone and iPad sold since 2011, as well as iPod music players out next year .
it fixes three security vulnerabilities in the operating system iOS, allowing hackers to access memory or run malicious software on the device.
“We were aware of this vulnerability and have repaired immediately,” said a spokesman for Apple.
in a separate note, the Citizen Lab at Toronto University of Canada, specializing in iT censorship, and the company of cyber security Lookout Californian explain cooperating with Apple after discovering a sophisticated attack mechanism using the three vulnerabilities (grouped under the name “Trident”) and striking “high value targets “eg political dissidents.
This is according to them of a spy software called Pegasus and created by Israeli society NSO Group.
It runs from as a phishing attack (phishing) it sends the user a text referring to a website pretending legitimate but discreetly designed to infect the machine with a spy system
the blog describes. highly customizable software depending on the country and features demanded by whoever buys: it can access the camera, the microphone and geolocation of the device, the message content, calls and a range of ‘communication applications including Gmail, Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, FaceTime, Line, mail.ru, WeChat …
This is a rights activist Emirati man, Ahmed Mansoor, who gave the alert. Already covered by several cyber attacks in the past, he found suspicious text messages received during August which promised him the “secrets” of detainees tortured in the prisons of the United Arab Emirates. Instead of clicking on links in text messages, he contacted the Citizen Lab researchers, who are raised to NSO.
According to local media, this company specializes in the “cyber- war “and based north of Tel Aviv, in” Silicon Valley Israeli “, was founded in 2010 and has spent the last few years including contracts with Mexican and Panamanian governments; but that is apparently the first time that its software is marked.
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