The Pegasus project, an investigation into NSO by the Guardian and other media outlets, coordinated by the French media group Forbidden Stories, has documented dozens of examples in which NSO’s spyware was used to attack users of Apple’s iPhone. In some cases, a vulnerability in the company’s iMessage feature, which could be penetrated by Pegasus, was used against journalists, human rights activists and other members of civil society.
The source is describing an iMessage exploit known as FORCEDENTRY, which can be used to deliver a persistent hardware backdoor (Pegasus) to an iPhone. Often, Apple is unable to detect the persistent exploit and therefore incapable of warning the user that they have a backdoored device: https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/20/apple-currently-only-able-to-...
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