Spyware researchers have captured what they say is a new exploit from NSO Group’s Pegasus surveillance tool targeting iPhones and other Apple devices through iMessage, in yet another sign that chat apps have become a popular way to hack into the devices of political dissidents and human rights activists. Apple issued a patch to close the exploit discovered by researchers at Citizen Lab who, they said, found the hack in the iPhone records of a Saudi political activist and alerted the company to the problem.
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