The public has known for years that governments around the world use software developed by an Israeli cyber-arms company to spy on journalists, opposition politicians, and activists. Investigative journalists published a series of bombshell reports in July 2021 about the widespread abuse of Pegasus, a powerful tool marketed exclusively to state clients. Earlier this summer, Meduza learned that the iPhone of its co-founder and publisher, Galina Timchenko, was infected with Pegasus mere hours before she joined a private conference in Berlin attended by colleagues in the exiled Russian independent media. It is the first confirmed case of a Pegasus attack against a Russian journalist.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    tl;dr: unknown state actors, possibly aligned with Russia, installed Pegasus spyware on the journalist’s phone, probably exploiting vulnerabilities in HomeKit and iMessage as the vector.

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      1 year ago

      The thing that’s known about is the payload not the vulnerability. They keep finding new vulns and dropping the same payload.

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          1 year ago

          “bulb” appears to be what my phone incorrects the term “vuln” to. I have updated my comment

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            Ok thank. I was afraid Ineeded to learn yet another tech term.