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Pegasus Spyware: "Most sofisticated" smartphone attack ever!!!

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Pegasus is a spyware that can be installed on devices running certain versions of iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, developed by israeli cyberarms firm, NSO group. Pegasus is not a new spyware.It was discovered in August 2016.  The spyware got significant media attention.It was the most sofisticated smartphone attack ever,and became the first time in iPhone history when a remote jailbreak exploit had been detected. What Pegasus does: Pegasus is capable of reading text messages,tracking calls,collecting passwords,tracking the location of the phone,accessing the target device's microphone and video cameras and also can gather information from apps. How it works? When clicking on a malicious link,Pegasus secretly enables a jailbreak on the device and can read text , track calls,gather information from apps which includes popular apps such as Gmail,iMessage,Facebook,Whatsapp,Viber,Telegram and Skype. How was it discovered?  The vulnerabilit