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My first thought was that it must be Apple. But the article says, > In August 2017, U.S. Company Two updated the operating system for its smartphones and othe
by kccqzy 5y ago
My first thought was that it must be Apple.
But the article says,
> In August 2017, U.S. Company Two updated the operating system for its smartphones and other mobile devices, limiting KARMA 2’s functionality.
I didn't find any meaningful security updates by Apple in August 2017: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 The only one listed on that page was about using HTTP to send analytics data, which I don't think is the one that disabled KARMA 2.
Then I looked at Google. There are multiple RCE vulns with severity Critical during these two months: https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01 https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01 and https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-08-01 https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-08-01
- tyrfing 5y agoIt's Apple, see the Reuters report from 2019: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-karma/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi... Here's KARMA: https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphone-zero-day-nso-group-uae/ https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon... Looking at CVEs, my guess for KARMA 2 is CVE-2017-8248, patched in 10.3.3. Bit of a stretch, though. Looks like whatever was patched was never really publicized. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8248 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8248