The backdoors said to be given by Apple to NSA for the “Triangulation” Spyware, exposed by Russian security during the Ukraine War, have now finally been patched by Apple.
These “bugs” where introduced 2019 and has thus been exploitable for four years time.
Apple … said it had fixed two newly discovered security flaws in its iPhones and iPads … underscoring the seriousness of a campaign that Russian intelligence blamed on the United States. … Kaspersky said previously that the attack worked by sending an iMessage with a malicious attachment.
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Kaspersky in the past has exposed a number of the most sophisticated spying tools the NSA is known to have worked on, including some related to Stuxnet, which disabled Iranian uranium enrichment tools. … The infection technique used in Triangulation is similar to that used by NSO and other vendors of high-end spyware.
The two security flaws were found and reported by Kaspersky security researchers Georgy Kucherin, Leonid Bezvershenko, and Boris Larin. … The attacks started in 2019 and are still ongoing, according to Kaspersky.
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Russia’s FSB intelligence and security agency also claimed after Kaspersky’s report was published that Apple provided the NSA with a backdoor. … “We have never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will,” [said] Apple. Yeah right 😉
“Over the years, there have been multiple cases when iOS devices were infected with targeted spyware such as Pegasus, Predator, Reign and others. … In researching Operation Triangulation, we set ourselves the goal to retrieve as many parts of the exploitation chain as possible. It took about half a year to accomplish that goal.”
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“The implant, which we dubbed TriangleDB, is deployed after the attackers obtain root privileges on the target iOS device by exploiting a kernel vulnerability. … TriangleDB [is] a sophisticated implant for iOS containing multiple oddities.”
Apples security by obscurity approach has some serious limits for anyone remotely concerned with privacy.
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