Many hacker groups have found a way to track iPhone

With its efforts, Apple has made iPhone still one of the most secure consumer devices in the world. But the fact has shown that nothing is impossible to hack, iOS malware still appears although still relatively rare compared to other platforms.

Therefore, prices for errors and exploits on iOS are always high on the black market. The iPhone jailbreak or jailbreak software is welcomed by many companies and costs up to $ 3 million, even governments are willing to spend much larger numbers. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Saudi Arabia recently purchased an iPhone malware created by NSO Group for up to $ 55 million.

However, according to Zuk Avraham, a security researcher, in fact, it is not only governments or large corporations that have access to the iPhone exploits that small-name hacker groups can do. OK. Evidence is that recently the method of jailbreaking iOS, the platform for iOS malware appears quite a lot on Twitter. It is estimated that there are currently more than 50 different groups that have iOS exploits.

Earlier this year, Kaspersky Lab said it had found a sophisticated spyware called Skygofree for Android, created by Negg hackers under a contract with the Italian government. During the investigation, Kaspersky Lab discovered one of Negg's control commands and servers that led to a "Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) server".

MDM is a feature in iOS, after installing on an iPhone the owner of MDM can manage and monitor the device. Malware creators took advantage of this mechanism to attack the iPhone.

In July, a group of hackers using MDM to target several iPhones in India was also discovered by security firm Talos.

According to information from Costin Raiu, head of Kaspersky Lab's research team, Negg's MDM server is still active. They suspect that Negg is a small company in Italy.

Currently, the method that this hacker group uses to put malware on targeted iPhones is still a mystery. According to the Kaspersky Lab researchers' assumptions, this group may have implemented social techniques such as tricking users into installing something because ordinary users often click on any link or download. down to which apps seldom consider the possibility of being targeted. This means, malware targets MDM, a feature designed specifically for the operating system, not exploiting bugs or vulnerabilities in iOS.

In May, the Motherboard site revealed that Italian police have asked the country's mobile operators to install malware on the phones of criminal suspects.

Negg is not the only small company to beat the security classes on the iPhone. Most recently, DriveSavers, a little-known security firm, has announced it can unlock all iPhones, even new devices like the iPhone XS on iOS 12, with a 100% success rate.

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