The dreaded moment arrived. Something we suspected right after Apple stopped signing iOS 9.3.3. And we have just been surprised by a small update of a few MBs that we could not even dazzle in the future. IOS 9.3.5 arrives a few minutes ago, and after a major uproar, it seems that something important in terms of privacy is behind it, we are going to analyze what has happened in the last few hours and why Apple has gotten to work urgently to release this small but important update. This update blocks an exploit that put many iOS devices at risk.
According to the information that starts from The new york time, there was available an exploit for iOS 9.3.4 that was wreaking havoc with users' private information. Therefore, we strongly recommend that all users who are reading this update to the latest available version of the apple mobile operating system. That is how The new york time You have defined this security issue:
Researchers have come to the conclusion of a company called NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells software that makes mobile phones untraceable, is behind these intrusions on iOS devices.
The group can read messages and emails, as well as intercept calls and contacts. They can record sounds from our microphones, collect passwords and position where the user of the device is.
In response, Apple has fixed this security issue with iOS 9.3.5 which will allow users to continue to maintain their privacy circumstances.
Apple recommends users to update to this latest version, How could it be otherwise, and according to rumors, this is the real reason that two iOS 10 betas happened so close together and with so little news.
The magazine Vice I was closely following the matter
According to Vice, the exploit is latent and is being used to spy on international figures.
On the morning of August XNUMX, Ahmed Mansour, a 46-year-old human rights activist residing in the UAE, received a strange message from an unknown number on his iPhone
He read in it that there were new secrets about torture in the prisons of the United Arab Emirates, and in the message there was a link.
Mansos was a victim of hackers from more than one government so he is indoctrinated on the subject, he did not click on the link. He sent the same message (forwarded) to Bill Marczak, an engineer from Citizen Lab, a company that ensures digital rights and is located at the University of Toronto.
Let's talk more about NSOGroup, a company that supplies governments with malware with the intention of intercepting mobile devices. The company sells its technology as "ghost" and it is. They have increased their profits remarkably, and they have never offered an interview to the company. According to the data, they have even received around 120 million dollars from the Government of the United States of America, and currently has an asset of around one billion dollars.
Its malware is known as Pegasus, it intercepts both your browsing data and calls and much more content. They are hackers who work for the highest bidder, and often the states themselves are those bidders. On the other hand, rumored to possibly be the company the FBI used to unlock the iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino bombings and gave Tim Cook so many headaches. According to the analysts of the Vice This malware affects devices after iOS 7, we remember that the iPhone 4 has not received updates after iOS 7.1.2, therefore, all current iPhone 4 devices are at serious risk of being intercepted with all the ease in the world. 10% of iOS users are currently on iOS 8, so don't hesitate, it's time to take care of your data.
You could bother reviewing the articles you write. I do not know if it is mere sloppiness or a blatant copy and paste with google translate in between, but my eyes hurt reading such a badly written text.
Hello fellow.
You could tell us the errors to solve them. Constructive criticism is welcome, but when it lacks arguments it creates unnecessary controversy.
Very well said
I have installed it an hour ago, it has left me about ten programs as latent, they are as off, if I click them, it tells me to wait, I have already restarted 3 times and I am still the same, it has no coherence, the apple store has put me asleep, google, various games, evernote, dropbox and goofle drive, some more that I don't remember.
Do you know something about this ?
Hello. I understand that you did not want to put "dazzle", but "glimpse."
Dazzling doesn't make sense in that context.
Well, I don't see where the bad writing of the article is. Anyway…
Regarding the content of it, at first I thought it was a joke or something like that, it seems to me something very serious. I am installing it, although it is clear that the target of that organization is not "ordinary" users so to speak, but important people with information that they can use to resell, blackmail, and so on.
Anyway, I emphasize again that this is something serious, among other things because exploit comes from IOS 7 (2013). So much hype for years with the security of IOS, that if it is the safest operating system, etc. and it turns out that we have been sold for 3 years.
Interesting, the info is appreciated.
As some annoy… Where do you see bad writing?
Make an article yourself, wise ...
I have installed it an hour ago, it has left me about ten programs as latent, they are as off, if I click them, it tells me to wait, I have already restarted 3 times and I am still the same, it has no coherence, the apple store has put me asleep, google, various games, evernote, dropbox and goofle drive, some more that I don't remember.
Is anyone like me?
Hello, what has happened to the ACTUALIDADIPAD page ???
iPad News is integrated into Actualidad iPhone. From now on there is only Actualidad iPhone.
Hello, I am a former iPhone user, but I tell you that about a year ago I saw in a local newscast in Mexico how they did it, and I saw when the reporter left his cell phone off on the desk and the hackers enabled the microphone and recorded what I was saying at that time, they extracted all their information (contacts, sms, etc), for me it was difficult to believe at that time so much vulnerability, Apple did not issue any comment, I came to think it was a joke, but now that this comes out to the light really believe it and that means that for a long time our information has been exposed, I will look for the link of the report and I will share it with you.