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CitizenLab revealed the vulnerability on Monday, a week after discovering it by analyzing the phone of a Saudi activist that had been infected with the malware. The discovery was announced to the public shortly after Apple rolled out an update to patch the vulnerability.
The vulnerability allowed the NSO Group's clients to send malicious files disguised as .gif files to a target's phone, which would then exploit "an integer overflow vulnerability in Apple's image rendering library" and leave the phone open to the installation of NSO Group's now-infamous 'Pegasus' malware.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, looks on during the funeral of Prince Philip on the grounds of Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain, April 17, 2021.
The Duke of York was served legal papers late last month, ahead of a trial in which he is accused of sexual assault, battery and inflicting emotional distress on Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who also claims to have been abused by deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein when she was under the age of 18.
The civil case began in New York on Monday with a pretrial hearing. However, court documents filed by Andrew's legal team state that the disgraced prince is contesting the manner in which he was served the court summons, which was handed to police security outside the Royal Lodge in Windsor, England, instead of directly to Andrew by an agent of the crown.
Comment: See also:
- Prince Andrew finally served court papers in sex-assault lawsuit after attempts to avoid them
- Prince Andrew a 'person of interest' for prosecutors in Epstein investigation, report says
- Prince Andrew 'not above the law', says Met police chief - as her team having 'another look at the material'
- Time's up: Virginia Roberts may sue Prince Andrew in US court, her lawyer announces
- 800 women questioned over sex crimes committed by Peter Nygard, friend of Prince Andrew
- And so, the smearing of the victim begins: Prince Andrew's accuser LIED about her age & was 'prostitute' paid off by Epstein, court papers show - report
- Laughing Prince Andrew went to topless photo shoot with teen accuser, 8 Russian models & Jeffery Epstein claims new book
- Royal protection officer: Met police destroyed records for the night Prince Andrew allegedly had sex with teenager in London
The former president in an interview with Fox News claimed more Americans were interested in getting the COVID-19 vaccine when he was president and accused Democrats of downplaying it.
"If you remember, when I was president, there were literally lines of people wanting to take it," Trump told Fox News. "Now, you have a different situation, and it's very bad."
Comment: When the vaccines were first introduced, people who were deathly afraid and thought the vaccines would save them were lined up around the block to get them. Now that those people have received the vaccines they wanted, the people who are left are the fence-sitters and those who are opposed to taking the shot. Trump should really consider a different tack in coming at the current administration.
See also:
- President Trump claims: "They are going to decertify this election!"
- White House tells 11 Trump-appointed military service academy board officials to resign or be fired...some push back!
- Analysis: Was Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal plan actually different from Biden's?
- Poll: Trump would beat Biden if election were held today, as 6 times as many Democrats as Republicans regret their vote
- Rand Paul: 'Hatred for Trump' blocking research into ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment
- Trump says Kabul airport explosion wouldn't have happened if he were president
- Ex-NSA head cheers for sending 'unvaxxed MAGA' Americans to Afghanistan, compares Trump supporters to Taliban
- Trump targets Biden over Afghanistan, gets booed for advocating vaccines at Alabama rally

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he would support the adoption of vaccine requirements for air travel.
On Friday, White House coronavirus response team coordinator Jeff Zients said the administration is "not taking any measures off the table" when asked if it had "ruled out" ever implementing vaccine or testing requirements for domestic flights.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said later in the day: "We are always looking at more we can do to protect and save lives. Obviously, he made a significant and bold announcement yesterday, so I don't have anything to preview — predict or preview for you, but we'll continue to look for ways to save more lives."
The document provides "guidance" for every nation in the world on how to go about implementing digital health passports, which is something Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and other power elites have said since last year would be absolutely essential to conquering the Covid pandemic.
The title alone of the document appears designed to repel the average reader and lull them to sleep: Digital documentation of COVID-19 certificates: vaccination status: technical specifications and implementation guidance.
The WHO is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, "to produce a high-value standard for international adoption and technical information exchange." In layman's terms, we're talking about a digital health passport. These passports, as we've covered in depth in previous articles, are meant for no other purpose than to track and trace the movement of people in real time, scooping up data all along the way.
In other words, one of the most basic rights in any free society, the freedom of movement, will be shattered if your city, state or nation follows the advice of the WHO, the World Economic Forum, or any of its tech partners such as Microsoft, IBM, Google, Facebook, etc.
From Big Tobacco to the nuclear industry and pharmaceuticals, industry has historically dictated WHO's global agenda and continues to do so in the present day, putting profits and power ahead of public health.
Bill Gates is WHO's No. 1 funder
In April 2020, Donald Trump suspended U.S. funding to WHO while the administration conducted a review into its "role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus." This clearly propelled the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation into the WHO's No.1 funder slot. Upon election, President Joe Biden reversed the Trump administration decision, restoring U.S. funding to WHO.
However, Bill Gates is still the No. 1 funder, contributing more to WHO's $4.84 billion biennial budget than any member-state government. Gates has used his money strategically to infect the international aid agencies with his distorted self-serving priorities. The U.S. historically has been the largest direct donor to WHO.
On Nov. 3, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic's second wave, instead of focusing on protecting Canadians, the government was introducing Bill C-10, an act to amend the Broadcasting Act. Again, it sounded pretty innocuous. The bill was ostensibly designed to bring streaming services, such as Netflix, under the purview of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
It was a terrible idea on its own, but initially didn't seem like it would affect most people's lives, because it specifically exempted user-generated content uploaded to social media sites from being subject to regulation. In fact, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault was adamant that, "We're not particularly interested in ... when my great-uncle posts pictures of his cats."
But the bill soon got altered in committee.
Plans had been announced that members of the public would be required to show proof they have had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in order to gain entry to clubs and other large-scale events in England.
But in a U-turn on Sunday, following a backlash from Tory MPs, the Health Secretary said the idea had been scrapped.
He told the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show:
"I've never liked the idea of saying to people you must show your papers or something to do what is just an everyday activity, but we were right to properly look at it.
"We've looked at it properly and whilst we should keep it in reserve as a potential option, I'm pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports."
Murthy did not specify what those steps would be.
Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Murthy defended Biden's efforts to expand vaccination in the United States.
"There will be more actions that we continue to work on, especially in the global front," he said.
The next session of the General Assembly opens Tuesday; the first day of general debate will be the following week.
On Monday, the chief of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, shared that he had failed to obtain a "promise" from Tehran that would explain the traces of uranium found at several old sites. Grossi stated, however, that he needs to "have a clear conversation with the new [Iranian] government about this."
Despite a lack of commitment from Tehran to explain the uranium issue, the US, France, UK, and Germany decided to scrap pursuing a resolution at the IAEA's meeting later this week - likely in an effort to avert tensions from re-escalating with their Iranian counterparts, which could stall the nuclear deal negotiations.
On Sunday, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran granted the IAEA permission to monitor cameras at its nuclear facilities, which Tehran has previously not permitted. A joint statement issued after the agreement hailed the progress between the two partners as having "reaffirmed the spirit of cooperation and mutual trust" and "emphasized on the necessity of addressing the relevant issues in a constructive atmosphere."













Comment: We know that various methods of espionage has been ongoing for many years now - the NSA tapping the phones of politicians across the planet is yet another example - and, if we consider the current state of the world and the nonsensical and increasingly draconian rule people suffer under, in this recent hack we can see just one of the ways with which politicians can be made to act in lockstep: The cyber espionage state of Israel