Mercenary Spyware Hacked iPhone Victims With Rogue Calendar Invites, Researchers...
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Mercenary Spyware Hacked iPhone Victims With Rogue Calendar Invites, Researchers Say
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QuaDream's customers operated servers from several countries around the world: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Ghana, Israel, Mexico, Singapore, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Uzbekistan, according to internet scans done by Citizen Lab. Both Citizen Lab and Microsoft published groundbreaking new technical reports on QuaDream's alleged spyware on Tuesday. Microsoft said it found the original malware samples, and then shared them with Citizen Lab's researchers, who were able to identify more than five victims -- an NGO worker, politicians, and journalists -- whose iPhones were hacked. The exploit used to hack those targets was developed for iOS 14, and at the time was unpatched and unknown to Apple, making it a so-called zero-day. The government hackers who were equipped with QuaDream's exploit used malicious calendar invites with dates in the past to deliver the malware, according to Citizen Lab.
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