But, the researchers said, “given the global reach of NSO Group’s customer base, the apparent vulnerability of almost all iPhone devices prior to the iOS 14 update, we suspect that the infections that we observed were a minuscule fraction of the total attacks used with this exploit”. “We believe that (at a minimum) this version of the Pegasus spyware had the capability to track location, access passwords and stored credentials on the phone, record audio from the microphone including both ambient ‘hot mic’ recording and audio of encrypted phone calls, and take pictures via the phone’s camera.”Ĭitizen Lab said that it had found 37 known examples of Kismet being used by NSO clients against journalists covering news in and around the Middle East. If Kismet can be thought of as the Trojan horse, used to bypass the security of an iPhone, then the soldiers inside are another piece of software sold by the NSO Group, called Pegasus, and it is frighteningly powerful, according to claims by Citizen Lab.
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said they discovered the alleged hacking tool, which has been dubbed “Kismet”.
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