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Spyware

Security incidents tagged Spyware. Newest first.

0 Spyware incidents in the last 12 months

Critical 4 · High 3 · Med 2 · Low 1 · Update ½LessMore
Incidents
2
Live
0
Patched
2
Days without an incident
1137
Longest quiet run: 1030 days (Dec 28–Oct 22)
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September 2023 1

  • HighBLASTPASS: NSO zero-click iPhone exploit chain (CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-41061)

    Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS Patched

    Citizen Lab caught BLASTPASS, a zero-click iMessage exploit chain that delivered NSO Group's Pegasus through malicious PassKit attachments carrying images. Apple fixed the ImageIO and Wallet bugs in emergency updates the same day.

    Open incident →CVE-2023-41064 · CVE-2023-41061

June 2023 1

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

    Apple iOS (and other Apple OSes sharing the bugs) Patched

    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.

    Open incident →CVE-2023-32434 · CVE-2023-32435 · CVE-2023-38606