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Journalists' Phones Hacked via iMessage Zero-Day Exploit


By Ionut Arghire on December 21, 2020
A recently observed Pegasus spyware infection campaign targeting tens of Al Jazeera journalists leveraged an iMessage zero-click, zero-day exploit for infection.
The Israel-based NSO Group, which has approximately 600 employees in Israel and abroad, made it to the spotlight several years ago, after security firms identified and analyzed Pegasus, a highly invasive spyware family that allows attackers not only to steal data from infected devices, but also turn on the camera and microphone.
The tool, NSO claims, has been developed for government use only, to help fight terrorism and crime. However, cybersecurity firms and human rights organizations have detailed multiple malicious attacks involving Pegasus, many of them targeting journalists and human rights activities. ....

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The Great iPwn: Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage 'Zero-Click' Exploit


Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based
Al Araby TV was also hacked.
The phones were compromised using an exploit chain that we call
KISMET, which appears to involve an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. In July 2020, KISMET was a zero-day against at least iOS 13.5.1 and could hack Apple’s then-latest iPhone 11.
Based on logs from compromised phones, we believe that NSO Group customers also successfully deployed KISMET or a related zero-click, zero-day exploit between October and December 2019.
The journalists were hacked by four Pegasus operators, including one operator
MONARCHY that we attribute to Saudi Arabia, and one operator ....

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