A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals

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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/

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Its almost as if every screaming that this would happen, knew what would happen if back doors were baked into software.


Didn’t see that coming!


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>!




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