Clearly the UAE secretly operated a tool 'Karma' that can hack hundreds of iPhones remotely simply by entering a phone number or mail account

by William Hook

A team of former US government intelligence agents uses the hacking tool " Karma " to hack iPhone used by diplomats and leaders hostile to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In recent years Reuters reports the strong case that a powerful hacking tool like Karma is shifting from a superpower such as the United States to a hand of a small country like UAE.

'Karma': Inside the hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-karma/

According to the five former agent who was involved in Karma and the text on the program that Reuters got, Karma was inaugurated from 2016 to the former head of Qatar and the human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize, It has made it possible to monitor hundreds of targets.

Karma is a tool used in the offensive cyber operation unit, code name "Project Raven" which is active in UAE's capital Abu Dhabi. It seems that members of Project Raven belonged to security officials of UAE and intelligence agents belonging to the former US government. The existence of Karma and Project Raven has been considered top secret, but Reuters who got the original members and internal documents reported that existence. Reuters also reports on some of the activities of Project Raven, which can be checked from the following.

Exclusive: Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven/

Apart from the activities of Project Raven, an agent who is a member of former Project Raven reveals details of Karma. According to this agent, Karma said it was an astonishing hacking tool that "allowing you to access the iPhone remotely just by uploading a phone number or e-mail account to the auto targeting system." Of course there is a limit to karma, hacking of Android terminal is impossible, it seems that you can not even intercept the phone. However, unlike many other cyber attacks, it is very powerful that you do not need an attack to take over the target iPhone, such as "the user taps a link sent to iPhone."

Although it is unknown whether Karma is used even at the time of article creation, the agent who became the source of information is "Karma is not going to be effective at once by Apple's iPhone software update done by the end of 2017 "I tell you.

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Mr. Lori Stroud, an official of the former US National Security Agency (NSA) and a member of Project Raven, recalled that Karma was first introduced in 2016 and said " There is an exploit you just got, get a huge list of targets that have an iPhone, it was just like Christmas, "he said with excitement.

The existence of Karma and Project Raven clearly expresses that not only UAE but also sophisticated hacking tools among Qatar and Saudi Arabia, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and disputes over personnel to develop and operate it are occurring Reuters wrote

According to cyber security experts, hundreds of iPhones can be hacked from the remote at the same time like karma, and location information, photos,