Immediately update your iPhone if you do not want to be a victim of this spyware [1671]
Already last year, the existence of a spy program or spyware called Pegasus was known, which was found on the mobile phones of numerous journalists, activists or leaders, including the current President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, or the Minister of Defense, Margarita Oak trees. This spyware takes advantage of programming flaws in the operating system and security holes to enter the system and remotely control the device. It was believed that, through security patches, Pegasus was controlled. But it has reappeared recently, and affects iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch devices, which use the latest version of the iOS operating system, 16.6. This past Thursday, September 7, Apple released a security patch that fixed both the original vulnerability through which Pegasus accessed the system, as well as another security hole found when investigating the first, Citizen Lab reports.Thus, through Pegasus, belonging to the Israeli company NSO Technologies, you can remotely access the device's microphone or camera to listen to private conversations or spy on restricted areas. Originally, this spyware was designeded to give governments a tool to combat terrorism and crime, but now it is also used to spy on people with valuable information in their hands.
Update immediately
It is important that all iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch users who have the latest version of the iOS operating system, 16.6, immediately update their devices. Postponing the latest security patches will make the device vulnerable and easily accessible to this type of spyware, which extracts information from the different applicationss on the smartphone, and also reports the user's location. The iPhone user is vulnerable and must wait for the Apple update. The user infected with Pegasus spyware does not know that the spyware is on his device, since it works normally. Pegasus is spyware that exploits system vulnerabilities without the need for the user to take any action or download any files. This type of spyware is known as zero day, and means that it is an attacker unknown to the developerer, who has to race against the clock to correct the security flaw. While the spyware is not combated, it sends constant information and extracts data from the gallery of images, videos, text messages and emails. The user is defenseless against this type of attack, and it must be the software developerer who fixes the vulnerability with a security patch.