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The fear of Pegasus-style spyware attack resurfaced on Tuesday after researchers at Microsoft and the digital rights group Citizen Lab identified new victims in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East -- once again from an Israel-based spyware maker.
The spyware used an exploit called Endofdays to enter the victims’ iPhones
Security researchers say zero-click exploits are real and can spread to the mobile devices at rank-and-file enterprises.
Researchers at Microsoft have discovered links between a threat group tracked as DEV-0196 and an Israeli private-sector company, QuaDream, that sells a platform for exfiltrating data from mobile devices.
The exploit was deployed as a zero-day against iOS versions 14.4 and 14.4.2, and possibly other versions.