A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260303225001/https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/
Its almost as if every screaming that this would happen, knew what would happen if back doors were baked into software.