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September 14, 2021

Apple to Patch Software Flaw That Left 1.65 Billion Devices Vulnerable to "Zero-Click" Spyware
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Apple has released an emergency software update to fix a security flaw
in its i Phones and other products researchers found was being exploited
by the Israeli-based NSO Group to infect the devices with its Pegasus
spyware. Over 1.65 billion Apple products in use around the globe were
vulnerable to the spyware since at least March. Apple said vulnerable
devices could be hacked by receiving a malicious PDF file that users
didn't even have to click - known as a "zero-click" exploit. The flaw
was discovered by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which found
the hack in the i Phone records of a Saudi political activist. Earlier
this year, a massive data leak revealed Pegasus software had targeted
the phones of thousands of journalists, activists and political figures
around the world for foreign governments and NSO Group clients.


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