A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303225001/https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/
I’d say this is good because it forces them to close this loophole, but they’ll have a new one.
Can you imagine the amount of 0-days these agencies must be sitting on top of?
Even if they don’t, they can easily add some.
Ohhh nooo it looks like we have a buffer overflow in <extremely convoluted kernel module with highly specific trigger>!