A rare and serious vulnerability in Apple’s iOS operating system has been discovered by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which last week published a report detailing its findings. It is the first known remote iOS vulnerability of its kind. Disturbingly, the company behind malware designed to exploit the security flaw may have also helped target an investigative journalist in Mexico in 2015, Citizen Lab said.
The report illustrates the growing threat that commercially-available malware poses to journalists around the world. Apple’s iOS-based devices are generally considered by experts to be among the safest options for journalists in the field.
That such an attack was possible is “mind-boggling,” Citizen Lab Senior Research Fellow Bill Marczak told CPJ. “I’ve never heard of this before.”
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