{"id":748,"date":"2025-06-13T08:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=748"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:43:52","slug":"apple-zero-click-flaw-in-messages-exploited-to-spy-on-journalists-using-paragon-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/apple-zero-click-flaw-in-messages-exploited-to-spy-on-journalists-using-paragon-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Zero-Click Flaw in Messages Exploited to Spy on Journalists Using Paragon Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple has disclosed that a now-patched security flaw present in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target civil society members in sophisticated cyber attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43200, was addressed on February 10, 2025, as part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122174\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122173\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPadOS 17.7.5<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122900\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">macOS Sequoia 15.3.1<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122901\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">macOS Sonoma 14.7.4<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122902\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">macOS Ventura 13.7.4<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122903\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watchOS 11.3.1<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122904\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visionOS 2.3.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A logic issue existed when processing a maliciously crafted photo or video shared via an iCloud Link,&#8221; the company said in an advisory, adding the vulnerability was addressed with improved checks.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/apple-zero-click-flaw-in-messages-exploited-to-spy-on-journalists-using-paragon-spyware\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/06\/apple-zero-click-flaw-in-messages.html\">Apple Zero-Click Flaw in Messages Exploited to Spy on Journalists Using Paragon Spyware<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Apple Zero-Click Flaw in Messages Exploited to Spy on Journalists Using Paragon Spyware<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has disclosed that a now-patched security flaw present in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target civil society members in sophisticated cyber attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43200, was addressed on February 10, 2025, as part of&nbsp;iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1,&nbsp;iPadOS 17.7.5,&nbsp;macOS Sequoia 15.3.1,&nbsp;macOS Sonoma 14.7.4,&nbsp;macOS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}