A newly-released app lets you regularly scan your iPhone for Pegasus spyware – which can access almost all the data on a phone – for a one-off cost of just one dollar.A mobile security firm created the app, which allows you to scan your iPhone or Android phone and send the results to them for analysis – and they’ve so far detected seven phones infected by the spyware … NSO’s Pegasus spyware NSO Group makes spyware called Pegasus.The company purchases so-called zero-day vulnerabilities (ones that are unknown to Apple) from hackers, and its software is capable of mounting zero-click exploits – where no user interaction is required by the target.
In particular, it’s reported that simply receiving a particular iMessage – without opening it or interacting with it in any way – can allow an iPhone to be compromised, with personal data exposed.NSO sells Pegasus only to governments, but its customers include countries with extremely poor human rights records – with political opponents and others targeted. Victims aren’t just the obvious targets Apple attempts to detect compromised iPhones and alert owners, but reports that there’s now a way to proactively scan your own device.Pegasus attacks are most commonly made against people like political activists, journalists, lawyers, politicians, and CEOs.
But iVerify says that the seven victims it found spanned a far broader cross-section of the population than would have been expected.How to scan your iPhone for Pegasus spyware iVerify is mostly pitching a subscription service to enterprise companies and other organizations, where devices are scanned on a continuous basis.But it’s also allowing individual smartphone owners to conduct monthly scans.
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