The company called this alleged hack against its own employees “ Operation Triangulation” and created a logo for it. Van Horn said the cyberattacks were discovered “at the beginning of this year.” Kaspersky researchers said that they discovered the attack when they noticed “suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones,” while monitoring their own corporate Wi-Fi network. “Although there is no clear indication the same vulnerabilities were exploited previously it is quite possible,” the spokesperson said. Kaspersky spokesperson Sawyer Van Horn said in an email to TechCrunch that the company determined that one of the vulnerabilities used in the operation is known and was fixed by Apple in December 2022, but may have been exploited before it was patched, along with other vulnerabilities. The company said that the hackers, who at this point are unknown, delivered the malware with a zero-click exploit via an iMessage attachment, and that all the events happened within a one- to three-minute timeframe. On Thursday, Kaspersky announced the alleged cyberattack and published a technical report analyzing it, where the company admitted its analysis is not yet complete. The Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said that hackers working for a government targeted several dozen employees’ iPhones with unknown malware.

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