A prominent Egyptian opposition politician who plans to challenge President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in elections expected early next year was targeted with a previously unknown “zero-day” attack in an effort to infect his phone with Predator spyware, according to new research by Google and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. The discovery of the valuable zero-day exploit, designed to install Predator on iPhones running even the most up-to-date operating system, prompted Apple to push a security update to users.
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