Apple fixes security hole reportedly used to hack an iPhone

A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company. Apple released an emergency security software patch to fix a vulnerability that an Internet watchdog group says allowed spyware from the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, NSO Group, to infect iPhones without any user interaction. — AP

BOSTON: Apple released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any user action.

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the security issue was exploited to plant spyware on a Saudi activist's iPhone. They said they had high confidence that the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, Israel’s NSO Group, was behind that attack.