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Wow, this is a very complex exploit, involving bits of iMessage and an undocumented CPU feature that allowed the attacker to evade hardware memory protection. From what I can see, Lockdown mode would have prevented this. The attacker is ridiculously skilled regardless
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someone was made fun of one too many times about having green bubbles in imessage
The true villain origin story
And it was all Apple's fault for creating the problem and Batman never stopped them
Seems like the definition of advanced persistent threat.
It isn't persistent over a reboot, but the tested devices received new corrupted iMessages immediately after reboot
Persistent in APT isn't referring to the malware itself, but rather the threat actor. I meant that this seems like a textbook APT actor.
You know what else was also super sophisticated, chained, and confident enough in it's APT to not be persistent across reboots? DOUBLEPULSAR.
You sure?
Reminded me restart all my devices
With that many exploits being used I wouldn't be surprised to see it is a group probably government sponsored. They love iMessage exploits as original attack vectors too.
Russian authorities say it was the Americans trying to spy on other NATO nations, Israel, and Ukraine. America spying on Russia's enemies.
Well, I may be under the wrong impression but it occurred to me that the US govt likes to spy on everyone, friends and foes and the US citizens, too
Edit: punctuation
Documentary about the pheonix software explains a lot about who used this kind of virus, mainly political figures and govermants to spy on other politicans and jornalists. The imessage exploit was known for a few years but nobody knew how the file installed itself on the device, so there was no way to figure out how to protect the device.
Which documentary?