Apple iPhones were successfully hacked by NSO’s Pegasus surveillance tool(washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com
Apple iPhones were successfully hacked by NSO’s Pegasus surveillance tool
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/
This time it was iMessage apparently. An exploit was released in 2020, perhaps this is just using this vulnerability. Apple had patched it, but perhaps the users didn't update their phones.
This would happen less if we had better and more open operation systems on phones.