The latest Snooping Pegasus Incident on journalists and activists has revealed that no matter which smartphone you use, you can be hacked.
While the iOS Apple boasts providing better security and privacy of Android, very sophisticated Pegasus spyware just extraordinary for almost all consumer devices.
And that is the reason why government institutions in 40 countries pay the upper dollar to regulate the IT infrastructure needed for the Pegasus function.
Talking about the iPhone, maybe disappointing knowing that even though paying more money to buy the latest iPhone, it can be hacked.
Apple in an official statement said, “the attack described in this report is well funded, very sophisticated, and targeting certain individuals.
While we consider them serious and working quickly making them unusable, they do not represent threats for most iPhone users.
“Pegasus Spyware targets Active Zero-Click Imessage Exploit; Even the latest iPhone can be hacked: the government reporgts using the ‘It Force’ brute to lurking citizens, there are very few consumer technology companies that can be done to protect privacy.
As for the NSO Group and Apple, it is always a cat and mouse game.
When Apple patched the vulnerability, the NSO Group found another weakness to continue the company using Pegasus.
Ivan Krstić, head of Apple security engineering and architecture in a statement to the media said, “Apple firmly condemned Cyberattack against journalists, human rights activists, and others tried to make the world a better place.
For more than a decade, Apple has led.
Industry in security innovation and, as a result, security researchers agree iPhone is the safest, safest consumer mobile device in the market.
The attack as described is very sophisticated, the cost of millions of dollars to be developed, often have short shelf life, and is used to target certain individuals .
Meanwhile it means they are not a threat to the majority of our users, we continue to work tirelessly to defend all our customers, and we constantly add new protection for their devices and data.
“Cybersecurity is a processapple claiming that it has created the safest consumer platform in the world with IO S.
“Like other people in the industry, we see security as a process.
As part of the process, we quickly overcome important vulnerabilities and provide security updates that are immediately available for our users, even on years of devices,” Apple said.
Apple recently introduced new security features in its chipset such as the pointer authentication code and blastoor capabilities in the software.
“Our sustainable investment in security means the security team has grown significantly, with around 4x growth in the last 5 years.
The team consists of many top experts in their fields, ranging from the intelligence specialist threats and offensive security researchers for defense platform engineers and everything Among them, “he added.