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Apple Just Issued This Urgent Warning for All of Its Devices - msnNOW
Sep 14, 2021 1 min, 11 secs
Now, Apple is reckoning with a new security flaw that can affect all devices without any apparent error on the user's part—and there's only one way to fix it or risk getting hacked.

Researchers at Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog organization at the University of Toronto, recently uncovered an Apple security flaw that has allowed Israel's spyware company NSO Group to infect anyone's iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Mac computer with highly invasive spyware, The New York Times reported on Sept.

The spyware, called Pegasus, was discovered on a Saudi activist's iPhone by the organization.

According to the NYT, Citizen Lab found that the Saudi activist had received an image that was invisible but exploited a vulnerability in the way that Apple process images, allowing Pegasus spyware to be secretly downloaded onto the activist's iPhone.

In order to bypass the possibility of getting hit by hackers, Apple just issued emergency software updates and is asking that everyone update their devices as soon as possible. On Sept?

In July, human rights organization Amnesty International found that similar military-grade spyware from NSO Group had been used to hack the iPhones of journalists, activists, and executives.

Attacks like the ones described are highly sophisticated, cost millions of dollars to develop, often have a short shelf life, and are used to target specific individuals," Krstić said in the statement.

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