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update your iOS devices right now a trio of vulnerabilities could completely compromise iOS devices the research firms that discovered the problem have dubbed the issues trident so let's dive into tried it it was found by to cybersecurity firms look out and Citizen lab the exploits are used by spyware called Pegasus Citizen lab found that Pegasus is the product of the NSO group the NSO group reportedly specializes in cyber war so Howard Trident and Pegasus found out a human rights activist ahmed mansour received text messages with links that promised secrets about detainees in the United Arab Emirates Mansoor did not click the links instead he sent the messages to Citizen lab Citizen lab recognized that the links were related to the NSO group the research firm works with look out and found that if the links were clicked the iphone would be jailbroken and malware would be installed jailbreaking an iphone allows people to install apps outside of apple's official app store look out says Pegasus is the most sophisticated attack it's seen the company also says Pegasus is very customizable it can be used to spy on all kinds of apps like facebook skype whatsapp and gmail on top of that lookout beliefs Pegasus has been out in the wild for a significant amount of time the company says it believes the vast majority of users will not be impacted by Pegasus all three vulnerabilities were patched in iOS 9.3 point 5 to update your iOS device go to settings then general and Tap software update get iOS 9.3 point 5 if you don't have it already that's it for this tech news update am i as akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update