North Korean iphone exploit in the wild

in #security7 years ago

"Probing the bowels of what he believed to be North Korean hacking architecture, American cybersecurity researcher Darien Huss found an outlier: iPhone software. It appeared at first glance to be a fairly mundane program, a mobile device management (MDM) tool. Such apps are typically used for businesses to remotely monitor and control employees' phones. But, according to Huss, it's most likely one of, if not the only, example of North Korean spyware for Apple's smartphone."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/05/11/apple-iphone-in-north-korean-hackers-sight/#41596c834165