UAE used deadly spying tool to snoop on iPhones used by prominent activists and diplomats

The barrage of bad news for the iPhone keeps coming.

Reuters has published a semi-worrisome report about how a team of former U.S. intelligence agents working for the UAE used a cyber tool called Karma to spy on iPhones used by "activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders" simply by "uploading phone numbers or email accounts into an automated targeting system."

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Karma reportedly allowed the UAE to "monitor hundreds of targets beginning in 2016, from the Emir of Qatar and a senior Turkish official to a Nobel Peace laureate human-rights activist in Yemen." Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/uae-used-karma-hack-tool-spy-iphones/
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