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Day · Jul 24, 2023

Operation Triangulation: zero-click iMessage spyware on Kaspersky's iPhones

Apple iOS (and other Apple OSes sharing the bugs)

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Updates on Jul 24, 2023

  1. Apple fixes CVE-2023-38606 (iOS 16.6); KEV entry follows on July 26

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Summary

Kaspersky found a years-long zero-click iMessage campaign on its own staff's iPhones. The chain used several Apple zero-days, including a bypass of hardware memory protections through undocumented MMIO registers (CVE-2023-38606), which was revealed at 37C3 in December 2023.

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