What you need to know
With the NSO Group`s Pegasus spyware in the news of late, here`s how to check your iPhone isn`t infected.
It`s very unlikely that you are, and the process of checking isn`t a smooth one.
You`re going to need to bust out Terminal.
With so much talk about NSO Group and its Pegasus spyware right now it`s important to remember that it`s very unlikely that you have been targeted. Still want to be sure? There`s a tool that can check, but it`ll take some work.
We know that 50,000 phone numbers belonging to journalists, government officials, and more are on a list of potential Pegasus targets and that`s all very scary stuff. Thankfully it`s unlikely most people will be anywhere near Pegasus or that list, but TechCrunch has detailed how you can go about being sure. It isn`t a fun endeavor and it`s going to involve cracking out Terminal, but it`s definitely doable.
The Mobile Verification Toolkit, or MVT, works on both iPhones and Android devices, but slightly d...
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