A group of previous US government intelligence agents working for the UAE hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the assistance of a complex spying tool called Karma.
The cyber tool enabled the UAE to screen several objectives starting in 2016, from Qatari and Turkish authorities to a Nobel Peace laureate human-rights dissident in Yemen, as per five previous agents and program records evaluated by Reuters. Karma was utilized by a hostile digital tasks unit in Abu Dhabi comprising of Emirati security authorities and previous American insight agents functioning as contractual workers for the UAE's knowledge administrations. The presence of Karma and of the hacking unit, code named Project Raven, haven't been recently announced.
The ex-Raven agents depicted Karma as a device that could remotely concede access to iPhones essentially by transferring telephone numbers or email accounts into a robotized focusing on framework. The device has limits — it doesn't take a shot at Android gadgets and doesn't capture telephone calls. Be that as it may, it was bizarrely powerful in light of the fact that, in contrast to numerous adventures, Karma did not require an objective to tap on a connection sent to an iPhone, they said.
In 2016 and 2017, Karma was utilized to get messages, instant messages and area data from targets' iPhones. The system likewise helped the programmers reap spared passwords, which could be utilized for different interruptions. The previous agents said that before the finish of 2017, security updates to Apple Inc's iPhone programming had made Karma far less viable.