![]() Update: Kaspersky has now released a ‘Triangle Check’ tool to look for evidence of compromise on their devices. All of that said, it should also be pointed out that just because no compromised iPhones using iOS 16.5 have been discovered, that doesn’t mean it is a 100% out of the question they could have been or will be in the future. Currently, that would be iOS 16.5, and I would check to make sure your iPhone has, indeed, been updated. My advice would be the same as always when it comes to operating system platforms: update as soon as they are released. It is, therefore, quite possible that the vulnerability being exploited has been patched in later iOS versions. Luckily, it seems like a fairly easy exploit to mitigate, as Kaspersky researchers have found no devices running iOS versions later than 15.7 that have been compromised. ![]() Apple has made it equally clear that it has “never worked with any government to insert a back door into any Apple product.” How To Mitigate An Attack While Kaspersky has made it clear that it cannot make any kind of attribution at this time, the FSB lays the blame firmly at the door of the NSA and Apple working in cahoots. While there is no firm evidence currently as to who is the target of this campaign, the Russian FSB security service has already claimed that thousands of Russians, including both ordinary users and foreign diplomats based in Russia, have been compromised. ![]() ![]() Posting on Twitter, Kaspersky founder Eugene Kaspersky said that the attack “transmits private information to remote servers: microphone recordings, photos from instant messengers, geolocation and data about a number of other activities.” Russia Suggests Attacks Are Backdoor For NSA Spies What is known is that it runs using root privileges and drops a set of commands that can be used to collect both system and user information. ![]()
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