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Deep iPhone exploit

2023-12-28 00:48:29.016763+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever — "Triangulation" infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky

Huge chain of attacks that included using a PDF to trigger a TrueType font exploit and eventually led to using a memory mapped I/O exploit inside Apple's ARM devices.

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#Comment Re: Deep iPhone exploit made: 2023-12-29 04:28:32.452935+01 by: Dan Lyke

Kaspersky: Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

This is no ordinary vulnerability, and we have many unanswered questions. We do not know how the attackers learned to use this unknown hardware feature or what its original purpose was. Neither do we know if it was developed by Apple or it’s a third-party component like ARM CoreSight.

#Comment Re: Deep iPhone exploit made: 2023-12-29 04:25:03.204406+01 by: Dan Lyke

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