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Anybody know why there was such a delay here? > In March 2021, we examined the phone of a Saudi activist who has chosen to remain anonymous, and determined tha
by DangerousPie 5y ago
Anybody know why there was such a delay here?
> In March 2021, we examined the phone of a Saudi activist who has chosen to remain anonymous, and determined that they had been hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. During the course of the analysis we obtained an iTunes backup of the device.
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> Citizen Lab forwarded the artifacts to Apple on Tuesday, September 7. On Monday, September 13, Apple confirmed that the files included a zero-day exploit against iOS and MacOS.
- TonyTrapp 5y agoThis has been asked and discussed in this thread already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516795 In short: Just because they got access to the phone in March doesn't mean that they were already aware of the zero-day exploit back then. Finding this kind of stuff takes a while.
- willis936 5y agoWe (the public) have known about FORCEDENTRY for 6 months. That time was spent analyzing and understanding the exploit. It does seem like a long time for such a public zero-click affecting 100s of millions of users.