An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project Zero On September 7, 2023 Apple issued an out-of-band security update for iOS: Around the same time on September 7th 2023, Citizen Lab published a blog post linking the two CVEs fixed in iOS 16.6.1 to an "NSO Group Zero-Click, Zero-Day exploit captured in the wild": "[The target was] an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices... The exploit chain was cap...