Submitted 20 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
Archived version: archive.is/…/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-gov…
Didn’t see that coming!
I’d say this is good because it forces them to close this loophole, but they’ll have a new one.
Can you imagine the amount of 0-days these agencies must be sitting on top of?
Even if they don’t, they can easily add some.
Ohhh nooo it looks like we have a bigger overflow in <extremely convoluted kernel module with highly specific trigger>!
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Its almost as if every screaming that this would happen, knew what would happen if back doors were baked into software.