'Hacking Team' Data Breach Confirms Firm's Ability to Infiltrate Jailbroken iPhones

cybersecurity firm hacking team experienced data breach earlier today, resulting in 400 gb of documents being leaked onto internet, reports the guardian. documents confirm hacking team's ability infiltrate , monitor jailbroken iphones on behalf of government law enforcement agencies nsa, as noted by macworld.

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much has been speculated before , after edward snowden's release of trove of national security agency (nsa) documents in 2013 capabilities of united states' agencies of allies , enemies. hacking team dump reveals quite bit more routine functions of third-party suppliers ecosystem, including enumerated capabilities.

ios users should therefore take note long-running concern jailbroken iphones , ipads susceptible vulnerabilities include access so-called state actors appears confirmed data breach.

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hacking team's software need installed on jailbroken iphone, firm has ability jailbreak , infect phone software via malware-infected trusted computer phone connected to. in firm's pricing list [pdf, requires chrome], it's revealed hacking ios device costs eur50,000 ($55,242) , includes "features" skype, whatsapp , viber chats, location, contacts , lists of calls. however, service includes prerequisite of jailbroken iphone.

hacking team uses legitimate apple enterprise signing certificate, used corporations create software can installed on employee devices, combined jailbroken ios devices bypass ios app installation protections. additionally, hacking team developed ability create malicious newsstand app capture keystrokes , install monitoring software.

last year, researchers working independently of each other @ kaspersky lab , citizen lab discovered components of hacking team's tools , how used government agencies steal data mobile devices, full extent of software hadn't been confirmed until now.

data breaching software , apple devices have been in news before, famously in last year's celebrity icloud data breach, discovered hackers using elcomsoft phone password breaker, software intended government , law agencies, steal usernames , passwords access icloud backups.

while of discussion around government agencies , citizen data has revolved around mass collection, hacking team's software designed attack individual devices rather vast network. it's exploits detailed in hacking team's documents addressed , patched in future ios , mac software updates.

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it's thing apple keeps making ios more capable. have less , less reason jailbreak keep updating it.

 

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