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Russia Says US Hacked Thousands of iPhones in iOS Zero-Click Attacks
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says some iPhones on its network were hacked using an iOS vulnerability that installed malware via iMessage zero-click exploits. From a report: The delivery of the message exploits a vulnerability that leads to code execution without requiring any user interaction, leading to the download of additional malicious from the attackers' server. Subsequently, the message and attachment are wiped from the device. At the same time, the payload stays behind, running with root privileges to collect system and user information and execute commands sent by the attackers. Kaspersky says the campaign started in 2019 and reports the attacks are still ongoing. The cybersecurity firm has named the campaign "Operation Triangulation" and is inviting anyone who knows more about it to share information. [...] In a statement coinciding with Kaspersky's report, Russia's FSB intelligence and security agency claims that Apple deliberately provided the NSA with a backdoor it can use to infect iPhones in the country with spyware. The FSB alleges that it has discovered malware infections on thousands of Apple iPhones belonging to officials within the Russian government and staff from the embassies of Israel, China, and several NATO member nations in Russia. Despite the seriousness of the allegations, the FSB has provided no proof of its claims.
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I don't think anyone doubts that the NSA would love manufacturers to put back doors into their products. It's not terribly likely they'd get Apple in particular to do that voluntarily.
But NSA doesn't need Apple's consent; it has other means for installing back doors, anything from slipping them into crypto standards or libraries to black bag jobs on specific shipments of equipment, to trojan horse apps. On top of that, cell phones transmissions aren't secure against any actor with what they call in the spy biz "national means". Russians and Ukrainians intercept each others' calls all the time. And apps that rely on TLS for encryption aren't likely to pose much of a challenge for the NSA.
Now I don't doubt Russian officials' smartphones are chock full of malware, although that doesn't necessarily mean the NSA put it there. But even if a particular phone is verifiably completely free of malware, any foreign official using one should probably assume Uncle Sam can listen in on his conversations and decrypt any data transmitted with that phone.
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Tell me that you know nothing about PRISM without telling me that you know nothing about PRISM.
I have no love for Apple, but just because I dislike an organization doesn't mean I'll make up shit about them.
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Apple publicly denied (in 2013) that they participated in PRISM. The media reported from supposedly leaked slides that Apple has been part of the program since 2012. Who's to say who is right.
On the other hand, Apple briefly partnered with the forensics company Cellebrite and handed over enough information to initiate development of law enforcement tools before Apple terminated the partnership. That is, once the initial requirements were met and the checks cleared.
I'm not saying Apple is the only one, nor t
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'Supposedly leaked slides', lol yeah right, it would have been funny if the rest of the tech world had as blasse an attitude on the Snowden leaks back when they dropped as you do now. The JTRIG slides were real, no one in media or govermment even tried to claim that they or any of the other material leaked by Snowden were fake. That's disingenuous
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It has little to do with liking Russia, it has more to do with their track record.
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Neither "the west" or russia as we know them today existed 500 years ago and I doubt the Holy Roman Empire gave 2 fucks about
the poor backwards donkey town called Moskva 100s of miles to the east. The ottomans were far more of a problem.Go learn some history before you shitpost next time Igor.
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Even funnier is that if you read pre-Revolution literature, much of the rest of Europe just a hundred years ago considered Russia to be one of the Great Powers that the other elites dickered with on equal terms.
Russian Hitler's delusions are probably partly fueled by the fantasy that if he can destroy the idea of the laws-based international order and return international affairs to 1910, then magically Russia will be considered one of those Great Powers again like it was prior to the Revolution.
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Well maybe not 500 years but 300 years that's for sure. And especially during the Cold War. I'm laughing when with the serious faces people in Norway and Sweden call a beluga whale "a Russian spy whale" just because it is wearing a harness labeled "Equipment St. Petersburg". That's enough evidence for them. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31... [npr.org]
Not to mention their recurrent hallucinations about some Russian submarines which they keep "seeing" near their shores.-
I kind of envy those people. Soon they will know what deep peaceful sleep feels like, maybe for the first time. At the same time, the ruSSians will be learning what it's like to lose. Interesting times.
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The West's track record is not better.
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Let's see... when was the last time the US assaulted a country after telling its victim it's just a training exercise?
The US sure ain't no saint when it comes to trying to browbeat someone into doing what they want, but there's still a difference in the extremes they go to. Not only when it comes to how they treat their own soldiers as more than just cheap and expendable cannon fodder.
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> Let's see... when was the last time the US assaulted a country after telling its victim it's just a training exercise?
I could reply "Let's see... when was the the last time Russia invaded, occupied or went to war with 4 middle eastern nations, dropping nearly 500 000 bombs, and killing way over 100 000 civilians, women and children".
But I think qaz123's point was the USA also doesn't have a good track record when it comes to spying.
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Didn't take four. One was enough [wikipedia.org].
At least when it comes to civilians killed. Dunno how many bombs it took them.
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Chechnya is not a "middle Eastern nation". And Russia did not "invaded Chechnya". Chechnya is part of Russia and if you don't believe me look at the map. You cannot invade yourself.
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Not because we don't like Russia, which we don't, but because Russia has a long history of doing this sort of stuff That is, both hacking against foreign powers as well as spreading disinformation. That is, the Russian government is a known liar. There is no evidence that is has changed and decided to be honest, and it has no track record of honesty.
People don't dislike Russia because of Russophobia; they dislike Russia because it lies, cheats, steals, assassinates opposition figures, engages in unprovoked wars, is a dictatorship, and loves its hypocrisy. As an example: shoots dozens of missiles daily at Kyiv, then a few drones are in Moscow and instantly they're claiming they're a victim of terrorism. Sure, blame the US for the same crimes, that's a valid case, but Putin takes these crimes to new levels, and he's desperate to be on the wall of shame next to Stalin and Hitler.
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I love Russia. Russia is entertaining. Russia is what you get when you build an entire society around the core concept of “no f&*ks given about anything”. Imagine the most chaotic RTS game being played by a poorly-trained, malfunctioning chatgpt. If you’ve got a dark sense of humor, absolutely hilarious.
On a good day, their science was just as good as the US. They produced a lot of people who rose to the absolute tops of their fields, and they were capable of absolutely great thing
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Not exactly.
Despite prima facie plausibility, take anything coming out of Russia with a roughly cinder-block-sized grain of salt because Russia's leaders are pathological, inveterate liars (see basically anything they have said about Ukraine) and because it is literally Soviet doctrine, when criticized, to go full whataboutism, even if you have to basically make shiat up.
That said... okay Russia, so what? You'd try to do the same, and have been caught doing or trying to do the same, to everyone else too. So does China (to the point that American businessmen are issued one-time phones and laptops to go to China that are discarded upon return). Welcome to the game of global politics.
The between-the-lines read (not that it's terribly difficult) here is, "waaaah you succeeded where we failed."
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