Apple currently only able to detect Pegasus spyware in half of infected iPhones

NSO’s Pegasus spyware is one of the most frightening privacy threats an iPhone owner can face. Without you taking any action at all, it’s able to completely take over your phone, accessing almost all of the personal data stored on it, and some versions have been able to activate cameras and microphones. Pegasus exploits zero-day vulnerabilities – security holes Apple doesn’t yet know about – but the iPhone maker has another way to fight back … Apple aims to detect Pegasus spyware iOS includes code which is designed to detect when an iPhone has been compromised by spyware even when Apple doesn’t yet know the method used. The company then notifies those it believes to have been infected with the spyware, while it also works to figure out the security flaw exploited. For example, last summer Apple sent warnings to iPhone users in almost 100 countries. Apple has warned a significant number of iPhone users across 98 countries that they appear to have been targeted by “mercenary spyware ... Read full article.