Targeted iPhone attacks in the wild.

#Apple just patched 2 new zero-days—bringing 2025’s total to 5 actively exploited flaws.

→ One lets hackers run code via malicious audio files
→ Another bypasses Pointer Authentication using memory tricks

Update now: #iOS 18.4.1, #macOS Sequoia 15.4.1, #tvOS, #visionOS

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Graphite Caught: First Forensic Confirmation of Paragon’s iOS Mercenary Spyware Finds Journalists Targeted | The Citizen Lab

On April 29, 2025, a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware. Among the group were two journalists that consented for the technical analysis of their cases. The key findings from our forensic analysis of their devices are summarized below:

Our forensic analysis concluded that one of the journalist’s devices was compromised with Paragon’s Graphite spyware in January and early February 2025 while running iOS 18.2.1. We attribute the compromise to Graphite with high confidence because logs on the device indicated that it made a series of requests to a server that, during the same time period, matched our published Fingerprint P1. We linked this fingerprint to Paragon’s Graphite spyware with high confidence.

#ParagonGraphite #Graphite #Apple #iOS

⚡ How Much Data Are #Apple & #Google Really Collecting?

In my interview with 7Sees, we broke down just how much data Big Tech is harvesting from your phone—even when you're not using it.

A study out of Trinity College in Dublin found that across U.S. users, Apple collects about 12GB of data every 12 hours—that’s like 6 full-length movies. But Google? They collect 20 times that. Over 1 terabyte.

This isn’t just background activity—it’s a billion-dollar spy industry disguised as convenience.

📺 Full interview: Big Tech's Billion Dollar Spy Industry

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📱 Critical zero-click vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) within #WhatsApp has been leveraged in targeted #spyware operations, in conjunction with an #Apple Imagel0 flaw (CVE-2025-43300).

This combination enabled malicious actors to disseminate exploits via WhatsApp, resulting in potential data exfiltration from the user's Apple device.

The attack sequence involved:
🚫Attacker-controlled delivery
🚫Malicious DNG/remote image (Imagel0) parsing vulnerability (OOB write)
➿ Remote code execution
All occurring without user engagement.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/whatsapp-fixes-zero-click-bug-used-to-hack-apple-users-with-spyware/

https://blog.quarkslab.com/patch-analysis-of-Apple-iOS-CVE-2025-43300.html

#iphone #ios

#Apple launches new Digital #ID feature in Wallet using US passport— Article

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

#apple #cloud #why

Technology stole your privacy, and with it your freedom. Yannik Schrade has a plan to get it back.

Chapters:
0:00 Why Is Privacy So Important?
4:13 Is Schrade Prepared to Suffer for His Cause?
10:38 Why Doesn't Our Current System Protect Our Privacy?
14:16 Are We Being Surveilled?
26:19 Is the iPhone Safer Than Android?
31:25 Is It Truly Possible to Communicate Privately?
35:20 Is Signal a CIA Operation?
47:54 Is the Current State of the Art Cryptography Secure?
53:02 How Did Schrade Build This Technology?
56:42 Is It Possible to Move Money Privately?
1:03:20 The Arrest of Roman Storm
1:14:48 Are Cash Transactions Private?
1:18:37 Is Schrade Concerned for His Safety?
1:23:02 How Will This Technology Impact Our Lives?
1:28:54 Will Any Big Hardware Manufacturers Sell Truly Secure Devices?
1:35:17 Are All Our Text Messages Being Monitored?
1:39:58 Is Your Phone Listening to You?
1:44:50 Where Can People Learn More About Schrade's Work?

#TuckerCarlson #spy #spyware #encryption #CIA #crypto #technology #EdwardSnowden #NSA #intelligenceagencies #blockchain #Apple #news #politics #podcast

⚠️ Dark Sword 🗡️ hacker group has been actively exploiting #Apple #iOS Zero-Day exploit to takeover device with a link click.

The exploit chain used 6 Zero-Day vulnerabilities.

Software patch has been released.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain

#apple #iOS 26.4

Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4 | Reclaim the Net

With iOS 26.4, #Apple has turned every iPhone in the UK into an identity checkpoint. The update, released March 24, requires all UK users to confirm they’re 18 or older before accessing certain features and services on their Apple Account.
UK communications regulator Ofcom called it “a real win for children and families.”

The infrastructure being built is more of a problem than that framing suggests.
Apple has, without warning, placed a gatekeeper on the devices of 35 million UK users who paid good money for full-featured smartphones and now find themselves holding something closer to a supervised children’s tablet.

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#UK #BigBrother #EvilApple #AgeVerification

Apple iOS 26.4 Age Check Locks Out UK Users | Reclaim The Net

Apple’s iOS 26.4 age verification system is failing UK users who don’t have a credit card or photocard driving license, leaving them with no way to prove they’re adults on devices they’ve owned for years.

The system arrived without warning, without explanation, and without any apparent consideration for the people who don’t fit Apple’s narrow assumptions about what a British adult looks like.

#BigBrother #UK #Apple #FacialReconaissance

>UK fines Apple for hosting Okko, a Russian movie streaming service
>Apple removes VPN & proxy apps for Russian users

Just like the last time, the new Iron Curtain was devised by the UK, is being imposed by the US, and will, without a doubt, be blamed on Russia.

It's remarkable how synchronized the Russian government and the West are at banning things for Russian citizens. Almost like they're in a group chat together. Wait, they are?...

@rwapodcast
#Apple #UK #Russia

https://x.com/EthanLevins2/status/2043366941922926940

#apple #bds #why

#iphone #ios #apple #Android #propaganda #women

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Connect the dots...

Tim Cook of #Apple announced he was stepping down as CEO the day before the #SPLC announcement came out.

Following the 2017 Charlottesville incident, Apple and CEO Tim Cook pledged $1 million each to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the ADL. Apple also matched employee donations 2-to-1 and created an iTunes donation tool to support the SPLC.

"Track Resignations." The coincidences are piling up...👀

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Reminder : Apple’s new iPhone comes with Israeli chips – and a hailstorm of memes

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone 17e — positioned as a “budget” model with better battery life — it unleashed a wave of dark humor online.

The reason is because two of the phone’s connectivity chips — the C1X modem and N1 wireless chip — were developed with help from Apple’s R&D center in Israel. Considering Israel’s cyber rap sheet, who can blame social media for viral comments like:

“Can I get the iphone without the exploding back door" (a nod to the 2024 Israeli Operation Grim Beeper pager attacks in Lebanon

“Israel will now be able to monitor ALL iPhone users in real time”

Amid claims that Apple secretly struck a deal with the Israeli government — and warnings the phone could double as a surveillance tool — the panic is rooted in Israel’s Apple's notoriously deep ties to Israel.

In January 2026, Apple spent nearly $2 billion on Israeli startup Q.ai — acquiring tech capable of detecting whispers, emotions, heart rates and even unspoken words through tiny facial movements

Each acquisition was founded by veterans of IOF Unit 8200, Unit 81, or the Israeli Air Force that coordinate mass surveillance

In 2022, former NSO Group  employees alleged that Mossad officials visited NSO’s Herzliya headquarters to request that its spyware Pegasus be used to hack phones “off the books”

The US blacklisted NSO in 2021, but a chip designed in that ecosystem is a hard pass for many.

Your iPhone is sponsored by the IOF: Apple's billion-dollar bet on Israeli surveillance

In January 2026, Apple paid nearly $2 billion for Israeli startup Q ai — its second-largest acquisition ever. The technology it bought can read whispers, emotions, heart rate, and even unspoken words through barely noticeable facial movements.

Apple's deep ties to Israel

Apple's second-largest R&D center is in Herzliya, Israel, where hundreds of engineers develop key technologies for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. The company has acquired six Israeli firms: Anobit ($390M), PrimeSense ($360M, the basis for FaceID), LinX ($20M, iPhone cameras), Realface, Camerai, and Q ai (nearly $2B).

Military origins

Each was founded by veterans of IOF Unit 8200, Unit 81, or the Israeli Air Force — units that coordinate mass surveillance and airstrikes on Gaza. The founders of Q ai — Aviad Maizels, Yonatan Wexler, and Avi Barliya — served in those exact same cyberwarfare units.

30% of Q ai's employees were called up to participate in the Gaza military campaign. By closing the deal, Apple brought dozens of soldiers linked to combat operations into its global workforce.

Silent speech technology

Q ai's technology reads micro-movements of facial skin, detecting whispered speech, emotions, pulse, and respiration — without a single word spoken. The company has filed a patent for a system that identifies words through lip movements and skin micro-vibrations, working even in complete silence.

Apple plans to integrate this into headphones and glasses for hands-free Siri control — but the same algorithms allow militaries to interrogate more effectively. It is a classic dual-use tool.

Ignored condemnation

Human rights group Skyline International condemned Apple's purchase, calling it "rewarding technology born of the Gaza genocide." The group urged BlackRock and Vanguard to freeze the deal pending an independent audit, but the call was ignored.

Beyond the deal

Apple made headlines last week when Apple Maps stopped displaying village names in southern Lebanon — the same region Israel is currently invading as part of the broader conflict against Iran.

The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in annual military aid — over $300 billion total since 1946, indirectly supporting its tech sector. Until recently, Apple's offices sat next to NSO Group, the creators of Pegasus spyware, though NSO moved to another part of Tel Aviv in 2024

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