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Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/cybersecurity

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Please tell me that the vulnerability is due to government surveilance backdoors

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 55 minutes ago

It appears to be related to exploit code that was sold by a US contractor to a Russian group; the exploits it uses are all patched on recent OS versions, but older versions of iOS 17 and 18 are vulnerable.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Ummm, it wasn’t me this time, I swear

[–] leviathan@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You sure know what news you wanna hear 😄

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Its been news before, so there is precedence for that possibility.