Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website

Re:Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any... by titanomachy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:43PM (#23621907)

A huge amount of effort went into developing this hack. Then the company NSO productized the hack and sold it to governments.

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Re:Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any... by Biganon on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:55AM (#23624550)

And as soon as Apple fixes it, they're out of business? I really don't understand how any of that works.

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Re:Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any... by ObsoleteNerd on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:03AM (#23624595)

They make enough money in between selling the tool and Apple patching the exploit to make it worthy, not to mention the amount of people who don’t do updates meaning the tool is still effective some of the time.

Then the find/buy a new exploit and do it again.

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Re:Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any... by Closi on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:40AM (#23625632)

I think the assumption is that if they have the capability to create this exploit chain, they also likely have the capability to develop others (and possibly have others waiting to deploy if these are discovered and patched).

It's the same with any of these hacking technology companies, they have to keep moving at the very edge of what is possible.

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Re:Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any... by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:06AM (#23624624)

Fixes it?

Apple could indeed fix some CVEs that they know about but every new OS/app/library release has the potential to introduce new CVEs that hackers can exploit.

It's a moving target indeed but due to the increased complexity and questionable quality of modern software there's no way they're going out of business, quite the contrary.

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