Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus. Pegasus is a "zero-click" software, hacking phones by sending texts that

  • Russia appears to be targeting journalists with spyware known as Pegasus.

  • Pegasus is a “zero-click” software, hacking phones by sending texts that don’t need to be opened.

  • The software has targeted dozens of journalists, activists, and politicians in recent years.

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    hardware based speculation is hard to patch compared to most exploits that are just bad programming mistakes due to two factors. one being its hardware and its hard to patch out hardware and 2. fixing it would lead to severe drop in performance. A name of a very recent one would be Retbleed.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yet, if you check your dmesg you’ll find innumerable methods of mitigation against such exploits.

      A software patch for hardware issue.

      Personally, I’d rather the drop in performance than the Kashoggi treatment.