Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “renewed” cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy. “The latest iteration of LightSpy, dubbed ‘F_Warehouse,’ boasts a modular framework with extensive spying features,” the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence Team said in a report published last week. […]
The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirmed as targeted, out of whom six had their devices […]
If the iPhone force restart does not work as intended, there may be an issue with the iOS system. To address this, look for physical damage to buttons used for hard reset before updating your iOS system. The general method involves pressing multiple buttons together until the Apple logo appears, but there may also be […]
If the YouTube app on your iPhone is crashing or will not open, there are various fixes you can try, such as force quitting the app, rebooting your device, and updating its version. Restarting your device provides a fresh start and can address minor software issues causing YouTube to crash. Check your internet connection If […]
The iPhone offers multiple ways of scanning QR codes, but the quickest and easiest method is using its built-in camera app. Open your camera app and point at a QR code; a notification will appear in the lower-right corner of the screen. Follow the QR code link, and you’ll reach its content or link. How […]
A new “post-exploitation tampering technique” can be abused by malicious actors to visually deceive a target into believing that their Apple iPhone is running in Lockdown Mode when it’s actually not and carry out covert attacks. The novel method, detailed by Jamf Threat Labs in a report shared with The Hacker News, “shows that if […]
A group of academics has devised a novel side-channel attack dubbed iLeakage that exploits a weakness in the A- and M-series CPUs running on Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the Safari web browser. “An attacker can induce Safari to render an arbitrary webpage, subsequently recovering sensitive information […]
Google has designated a brand new CVE number for a major security vulnerability that has been discovered in the libwebp image library, which is used for displaying pictures in the WebP format. This flaw has been found to be exploited in the wild by malicious users. A major vulnerability that existed in Google Chrome for […]
Apple on Thursday released emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to address two zero-day flaws that have been exploited in the wild to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware. The issues are described as below – CVE-2023-41061 – A validation issue in Wallet that could result in arbitrary code execution when handling […]
This summer, hundreds of thousands of people will be preparing to take off while sitting back, relaxing, and using the airplane mode setting on their iPhones. When this setting is activated, the device’s radio frequency (RF) transmission technology is turned off, which severes the user’s connection to their mobile network for the duration of the […]
Apple has rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari to address several security vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited zero-day bug in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-38606, the shortcoming resides in the kernel and permits a malicious app to modify sensitive kernel state potentially. The company said it was addressed with […]
Recent news reports have brought attention to two serious zero-day vulnerabilities that pose a risk to the digital security of Apple products sold in every region of the world. Both of these vulnerabilities, which have been given the CVE identifiers CVE-2023-37450 and CVE-2023-38606, were found to be present in Apple’s WebKit browser engine and kernel […]
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused the United States Intelligence Community of hacking into “thousands of Apple phones” in order to conduct surveillance on Russian diplomats. The United States targeted iOS devices using malware that had not been seen before, according to a statement that was released by the FSB on Thursday. The […]
Israeli spyware maker NSO Group deployed at least three novel “zero-click” exploits against iPhones in 2022 to infiltrate defenses erected by Apple and deploy Pegasus, according to the latest findings from Citizen Lab. “NSO Group customers widely deployed at least three iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains against civil society targets around the […]
Threat actors using hacking tools from an Israeli surveillanceware vendor named QuaDream targeted at least five members of civil society in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. According to findings from a group of researchers from the Citizen Lab, the spyware campaign was directed against journalists, political opposition figures, and […]
Security researchers have uncovered fresh malware with hacking capabilities comparable to those of Pegasus, which was developed by NSO Group. The software, which is sold by an Israeli firm named QuaDream, has previously been used by customers to target journalists, political opposition leaders, and an employee of an NGO. The company that makes and sells […]
Apple consumers have been dealt a blow in a world where digital security is of the utmost importance due to the recent revelation of two zero-day vulnerabilities that impact a variety of devices. Researchers Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Donncha o Cearbhaill of Amnesty International’s Security Lab were the ones who […]
A new complaint has been filed against Apple, accusing the corporation of monitoring iPhone users’ device data even when those users have requested that tracking be turned off. The lawsuit argues that Apple “illegally captures and utilizes customers’ personal information and activities.” In addition, the case alleges that the iPhone giant violated the plaintiff’s right […]
Here are some of the most common ways that an iPhone can be compromised with malware, how to tell it’s happened to you, and how to remove a hacker from your device
For a zero-day vulnerability in its macOS and iOS operating systems that has already been exploited, Apple released emergency updates on Monday. In a security advisory alerting users to code execution vulnerabilities in fully patched iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, Apple verified the vulnerability’s exploitation. The following devices are affected: iPhone 6s and after, all […]
Apple on Wednesday backported security updates to older iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices to address a critical security flaw that has been actively exploited in the wild. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2022-32893 (CVSS score: 8.8), is an out-of-bounds write issue affecting WebKit that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted web […]