Apple Warned Iranian Dissidents Of iPhone Spyware Attack Months Before War Erupted

With regard to the attack at issue, the report relays that a human rights group estimated that they were only able to identify "a fraction of the total targets." Some of the targeted individuals work within the Iranian government, a fact which suggests that the campaign may have been an initiative launched by either Israel or the U.S. Indeed, Lookout noted that about a week into the recent Israel-Iran war, its researchers discovered several new samples of an advanced Android malware dubbed DCHSpy which has the "ability to identify and exfiltrate data from files of interest on the device as well as WhatsApp data."

Author: staff@bgr.com (yheisler2)

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