Second Israeli firm developed & sold exploit to break into iPhones remotely

A new report claims that an NSO Group rival, a lower-profile firm called QuaDream, had also exploited an iPhone flaw that allowed its customers to remotely hack smartphones.

NSO Group's Pegasus hacking tool has been under such increased pressure that its makers considered shutting it down. At the same time as foreign governments — and the FBI — were buying Pegasus, though, there was a lesser-known alternative.According to Reuters, five unnamed sources have confirmed the existence of QuaDream, a second Israeli spyware company. The sources say that QuaDream gained the same ability to compromise iPhones as Pegasus, at around the same time that the NSO Group did.

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