Four nation-state-backed advanced persistent threats (APTs) hacked Al Jazeera journalists, producers, anchors and executives. Attack leveraging a zero-day exploit in Apple s iMessage feature for iPhone, researchers said. The attack, carried out in July and August, compromised 36 personal phones belonging to the victims. The perpetrators could belong to up to four APTs, possibly linked to Saudi Arabia or the UAE. All of the operators used the NSO Group’s infamous Pegasus spyware as their final payload.
Source: https://threatpost.com/zero-click-apple-zero-day-pegasus-spy-attack/162515/