cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/63197390
found this on some telegram channel:
In February 2026, an employee of Paragon Solutions published a photograph on her LinkedIn profile depicting the operation of the Graphite spyware. The post has currently been deleted.
Reut Yamen holds the position of Chief Legal Counsel and Director of Compliance at the Israeli company Paragon Solutions, which specializes in cyber-surveillance technologies. The company was founded in 2019 by a group of former employees of Israeli intelligence services — among them Ehud Schneorson, former commander of Unit 8200 (Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency), as well as former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
The post was first noticed by technology researcher Yurre van Bergen, who tracks the use and proliferation of spyware worldwide.
The image apparently shows a demonstration interface of the Graphite system. An operator can view messages intercepted from a surveillance target in various services, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Line, and TikTok.
According to the results of a large-scale investigation conducted by The Citizen Lab in 2025, in 2024 in Italy, dozens of journalists and private individuals were attacked via the WhatsApp messenger using Graphite. A “zero-click” exploit (one that does not require user interaction) was used for this purpose.
Paragon Solutions has (or previously had) contracts with U.S. government agencies, in particular the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Well the picture identifies the user by their number and graphite has made the news with zero click sms attacks before so it, uh, stands to reason.
But I’m coming around on it not being the 2025 iOS zero click just because the picture shows a date in February of 2026 and Apple caught and patched 43200 in February of 2025. It could still be an unpatched device from a year later though, but why wouldn’t they show iMessage as opposed to everything else? It seems like they’d filter the source of messages even if they were just reading the output of the messages app that reads iMessage, rcs and sms…
I initially believed the other user who said it was 43200 because paragon does that stuff and the journalist hack was in the news at that time but I misread the date on the picture. I’m not even thinking it’s necessarily an iOS device.
Hell, it could be a trade show or a demo.