Came the dreaded moment. We suspected something just since Apple stopped signing iOS 9.3.3. And it is that we just surprise a small update from few MBs that not we could not even dazzle in the future. Becomes iOS 9.3.5 few minutes ago, and after a major stir, there seems to be something important that privacy concerns back, we are going to analyze what has happened these last hours and why Apple put hands to the work of urgency to launch this small but important update. With this update is blocked an exploit which put at risk many iOS devices.
According to the information that depart from The New York Time, had available an exploit for iOS 9.3.4 that was causing real havoc with the information private of them users. Therefore, strongly recommend that all users who are reading this upgrade to the latest available version of the mobile operating system from Apple. This is how The New York Times has defined this security problem:
Researchers have come to the conclusion of a company called the NSO Group, an israeli company that sells software that makes it impossible to track mobile phones, is the one behind these intrusions on iOS devices.
The group can read them messages and post, as well as intercept those calls and contacts. They can record sounds from our microphones, collect passwords and position the place where the user is located.
In response, Apple has solved this problem of security with iOS 9.3.5 allowing users to continue to maintain their circumstances of privacy.
Apple recommends that users upgrade to this latest version, as it could not be otherwise, and according to those rumors, this is the real reason that will happen two betas of iOS 10 so together and with so few new features.
The magazine Vice followed closely the case
According to Vice, the exploit is dormant and it is being used to spy on characters of international significance.
In the morning of August 10, Ahmed Mansour, a 46 human rights activist who lives in the United Arab Emirates, United, received a strange message from a number unknown in your iPhone
Read in it that had new secrets about the torture in the prisons of them Emirates Arab United, and in the message had a link.
Meek was the victim of hackers at one Government that is indoctrinated in the issue, not struck in the link. He sent the same message (forwarded) to Bill Marczak, an engineer of Citizen Lab, a company that candle by them rights digital and that is located in the University of Toronto.
Talk about more than the NSO Group, a company that provides of malware to those Governments with the intention of intercepting devices mobile. The company sells its technology as “ghost” and so. Have increased their benefits dramatically, and never have offered an interview to the company. According to the data, even have received around 120 million of dollars of part of the Government of the United States of America, and currently has an active of around thousand million of dollars.
Your malware known as Pegasus, intercepts both navigation data such as calls and much more content. They are hackers working for the highest bidder, and often States themselves those bidders. On the other hand, is rumored that possibly is the company that the FBI used to unlock the iPhone 5 c involved in the attacks of San Bernardino and that so many headaches of head gave to Tim Cook. According to analysts of the team of Vice this malware affects subsequent to 7 iOS devices, we remind you that iPhone 4 has not received after iOS 7.1.2 updates, all iPhone 4 current devices are therefore at risk of being intercepted with the ease of the world. 10% of users of iOS is currently 8 IOS, so do not hesitate, it is the time to ensure your data.
