Anomalous iPhone crashes can potentially be associated with sophisticated zero-click attacks.

Suspicious activity observed in late 2024 and early 2025 supposedly targeted six devices belonging to high-value individuals affiliated with political campaigns, governments, media organizations, and tech companies in the EU and the US. The exploited bug resides in ‘imagent’, the process handling iMessage traffic including features that allows users to share personalized contact information. According to iVerify, the most concerning aspect of the security defect is the fact that it can be triggered without user interaction.

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