Apple has published a security patch believed to be related to the Pegasus case

Apple is launching a series of fixes for iOS, but also for macOS Big Sur and iPadOS that its customers should install without delay. Vulnerabilities have been identified and it is believed that they are already being used for malicious purposes.

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Reminder, After revealing Project Pegasus, an investigation by Forbidden Stories, a non-profit project, and sixteen media outlets, there was plenty of evidence that vulnerabilities exploited by the Israeli company NSO Group to infect smartphones were brought to light.

The condemned program sucks all the data from the smartphone: photos, videos, address book, locations … but also messages encrypted in applications such as Signal where The WhatsApp. The Android operating system is targeted, as well as Windows, as well as iOS. CitizenLab was able to monitor NSO Pegasus spyware spread on a file iPhone 12 Pro Max performance iOS 14.6 (The latest public version of the operating system). This iPhone was hacked via a security hole ث Zero Click Zero Day On iMessage.

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Apple was quick to respond, The day after the announcementsThe iPhone remains, despite everything, the most secure smartphone in the world. It must be said that the American brand has protected personal data for priesthood users. Several studies have shown that it is This ‘privacy’ orientation of Apple Which weakened other brands of smartphones.

A security patch has been published

Apple hastily published macOS 11.5.1 and iOS / iPadOS 14.7.1. These updates, which at first glance seem simple, fix a security flaw that appears to have been used in connection with the Pegasus case. So we advise you to run updates without much delay, at least as a precaution.

On iPhone and iPad, go to Settings > General > Software Update. While using macOS, you should go to > System Preferences> Software Update.