tl;dr: unknown state actors, possibly aligned with Russia, installed Pegasus spyware on the journalist’s phone, probably exploiting vulnerabilities in HomeKit and iMessage as the vector.
Known for years, and it's not patched yet?
The thing that’s known about is the payload not the vulnerability. They keep finding new vulns and dropping the same payload.
Oh, thx. What is a bulb in this context?
“bulb” appears to be what my phone incorrects the term “vuln” to. I have updated my comment
Ok thank. I was afraid Ineeded to learn yet another tech term.
You think Russians have access to pegasus?
Israel ain't a friend of Ukraine ...
It is barely a friend to US...
Russia got cash...
What would happen if FSB manages to reverse engineer the Pegasus hack?
They'd safe a few dollars over buying it from someone else.
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