These allow attackers to burrow into the restricted parts of the phone without ever giving the target any indication of having been compromised. He argues that while the iPhone’s security is getting tighter as Apple invests millions to raise the wall, the best hackers have their own millions to buy or develop zero-click exploits that let them take over iPhones invisibly. And in December, he was the lead author of a report titled “ The Great iPwn,” detailing how the same hackers allegedly targeted dozens of Al Jazeera journalists. His research includes the groundbreaking 2016 “ Million Dollar Dissident” report that introduced the world to the Israeli hacking company NSO Group. Marczak has spent the last eight years hunting those top-tier hackers. But the 1% of top hackers are going to find a way in and, once they’re inside, the impenetrable fortress of the iPhone protects them.” “You’re going to keep out a lot of the riffraff by making it harder to break iPhones.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” says Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at the cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab.
