According to Kaspersky Lab, a zero-click spyware attack is actively infecting iPhone devices.
on Thursday regarding a new spyware attack against iOS devices. After detecting suspicious activity on multiple iPhones, the security experts at Kaspersky created offline backups of each device in order to inspect them all using the Mobile Verification Toolkit for iOS. The file produced by the MVT featured a number of indicators suggesting that the iPhones had indeed been compromised.According to Kaspersky, the spyware can infect iPhones without any action from the user.
At this point, the code begins downloading additional stages from a command-and-control server, which installs even more iOS exploits for privilege escalation. Once the iPhone has been exploited, a final payload is downloaded with a fully-functional advanced persistent threat platform. The initial message is then deleted along with the attachment, and the users are none the wiser as all of these steps have occurred in the background.
“Due to the peculiarities of blocking iOS updates on infected devices, we have not yet found an effective way to remove spyware without losing user data,” CEO Eugene Kaspersky. “This can only be done by resetting infected iPhones to factory settings, installing the latest version of the operating system and the entire user environment from scratch.
Kaspersky says the oldest traces of infection were from 2019, but the spyware is still infecting iPhones to this day. The good news is that the attack has only been detected so far on iPhones running iOS 15.7 or older. iOS 15.7 rolled out in September 2022, and Apple’s developer portal shows thatFor what it’s worth, Eugene Kaspersky claims that his company “was not the main target of this cyberattack.
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