Apple users beware! Researchers at digital watchdog group CitizenLab revealed Thursday that they discovered spyware linked to Israeli firm NSO that exploited a newly discovered flaw in Apple devices.
While examining an Apple device belonging to an employee of the Washington-based civil society group last week, CitizenLab said it found that the flaw was used to infect the device with NSO’s Pegasus spyware, it said in a statement.
“This shows that civil society is once again serving as an early warning system for really sophisticated attacks,” said John Scott Railton, senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. is doing.”
However, Citizen Lab did not identify the organization or the victim.
According to Digital Watchdog, the bug allowed iPhones running the most recent version of iOS (16.6) to be compromised without any victim involvement.
After seeing the issues raised by Citizen Lab, Apple updated its product.
An Apple representative declined to comment further, and Citizen Lab recommended users upgrade their gadgets.
Additionally, an NSO representative said there was no immediate comment on CitizenLab’s findings, Al Arabiya reported.
The US government has blacklisted the Israeli company since 2021 as a precautionary measure after alleged abuses, including surveillance of journalists and government officials.
