{"id":243603,"date":"2026-09-04T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/pegasus-zeroclick-spyware-exploit-infects-serbian-student-movement-members-iphone"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:34:10","slug":"pegasus-zeroclick-spyware-exploit-infects-serbian-student-movement-members-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/pegasus-zeroclick-spyware-exploit-infects-serbian-student-movement-members-iphone","title":{"rendered":"Pegasus ZeroClick Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member\u2019s iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pegasus-zeroclick-spyware-exploit-infects-serbian-student-movement-members-iphone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia\u2019s student protest movement was infected with NSO Group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/07\/european-parliament-member.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pegasus spyware<\/a>, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device with NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware,\u201d the Citizen Lab <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/research\/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-serbian-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe found high-confidence indicators of infection from a period across December 2025 \u2013 January 2026; however, this does not preclude the possibility of additional infections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s assessed that the zero-click exploit used in the attack targeted Apple iMessage, and has been addressed by Apple with <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/04\/apple-patches-two-actively-exploited.html\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 18.4.1<\/a>, which was released in April 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia\u2019s student protest movement was infected with NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. \u201cOur analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device with NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware,\u201d the Citizen Lab said. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}