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The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news service has said that it was subjected to a series of cyber-hacking attempts to penetrate some of its platforms and websites this

Israel Company NSO's Pegasus Spyware Used to Hack Middle East Journalists' iPhones Canada-based Citizen Lab found that 36 journalists' iPhones were hacked exploiting a "zero-click" vulnerability in Apple's iMessage. By As per a report by Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog from the University of Toronto, dozens of journalists had their iPhones hacked through exploiting a known vulnerability in Apple's iMessage, allowing hackers "zero-click" access. While the vulnerability has now been fixed, it was used to plant malware that was used by nation-states in at least 36 prominent journalists' phone...

BBC News Published image captionDozens of Al Jazeera journalists were targeted in the attack, researchers allege Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists were allegedly hacked with the help of spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO Group, cyber-security researchers say. It says a vulnerability in iPhone operating system software was used. NSO Group has denied the allegation, saying it “lacks any evidence". Citizen Lab researchers say they concluded with “medium confidence” that two attackers who had spied on the phones of Al Jazeera journalists were doing so on behalf of the Saudi Arabian and UA...

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 ...