{"id":28387,"date":"2017-06-23T18:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=28387"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:42:04","slug":"now-spyware-targeting-iphones-ipads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/news\/now-spyware-targeting-iphones-ipads\/","title":{"rendered":"Now a spyware is targeting iPhones and iPads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper wpb_text_column td_block_wrap td_block_wrap vc_column_text tdi_5  tagdiv-type td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\"  data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_5\" ><div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\"><\/div><div class=\"td-fix-index\"><p>Apple iPhones and iPads, despite their advanced encryption, are no more immune to spyware, it has been revealed. Interestingly, the allegation has come from Moscow-based anti-virus software creator and cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab and is aimed at US-ally Israel.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed on June 23 by\u00a0<em>IndiaLeaks<\/em>\u00a0that the \u201cPegasus\u201d spyware which was developed by the NSO Group, an Israeli company which develops spyware can hack into iPhones and iPads.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Mansoor, a UAE-based human rights activist and a victim of such spyware has said that an iOS version of \u201cPegasus\u201d can harvests data and establish surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Altaf Halde, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab (South Asia) has been reported as saying: \u201cWhen news of the iOS version of \u2018Pegasus\u2019 got out, Apple was quick to react. The company issued an iOS security update (9.3.5) that patched the vulnerabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cGoogle, which helped investigate the case with the Android version, took another path and notified potential \u2018Pegasus\u2019 targets directly. If you\u2019ve updated your iOS gadgets to the latest software version and haven\u2019t received a warning message from Google, you are probably safe and not under surveillance by Pegasus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Mansoor received spear-phishing mails with malicious links, he sent the messages to security experts from Citizen Lab and they brought another cybersecurity firm, Lookout, to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>That was when the spyware was named \u201cPegasus\u201d. Experts have said that it was the most sophisticated attack they\u2019d ever seen on any endpoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014<strong>India Legal Bureau<\/strong>\u200b<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[5609,3465,13458,13456,13455,13457],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/06\/iphone-6s-993199_1920.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}