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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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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't see that coming!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d say this is good because it forces them to close this loophole, but they’ll have a new one.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you imagine the amount of 0-days these agencies must be sitting on top of? 

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even if they don’t, they can easily add some.

Ohhh nooo it looks like we have a buffer overflow in !