Apple patches “FORCEDENTRY” zero-day exploited by Pegasus spyware
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Apple has released several security updates this week to patch a "FORCEDENTRY" vulnerability on iOS devices. The "zero-click, zero-day" vulnerability has been actively exploited by Pegasus, a spyware app developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, which has been known to target activists, journalists, and prominent people around the world. Tracked as CVE-2021-30860, the vulnerability needs little to no interaction by an iPhone user to be exploited—hence the name "FORCEDENTRY." Discovered on a Saudi activist’s iPhone In March, researchers at The Citizen Lab decided to analyze the iPhone of an unnamed Saudi activist [...]