Worried about Pegasus? Install iMazing app

Revelations around the Pegasus spyware made waves around the globe recently. Created by Israel's NSO Group, the spyware exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to collect data from targeted smartphones without the user knowing anything about it. Naturally, since the extent of its use was uncovered, there has been a state of panic among high profile individuals with online footprints.

A new feature on an app now promises to detect this spyware on iPhones. Called iMazing, the app works for both macOS and Windows and can be used to find out if a connected iPhone has been compromised by the spyware or not.

Essentially an iPhone management software, the ability to detect traces of a Pegasus attack has recently been introduced to the iMazing app in an update. The spyware detection feature for iPhones can be seen on the iMazing 2.14 version for macOS or Windows.

To run a diagnostic, users simply have to connect their iPhones to their Mac or Windows system and run the latest iMazing application. They can then select the Detect Spyware option to know if their iPhone has been compromised or not. The company says that there is no setup or prior backup required to run this function.

Note that this is not the first time that a method to detect the Pegasus spyware has been made public. Amnesty International, the human rights group responsible for uncovering the Pegasus attacks, had earlier released a tool to let users detect the Pegasus infection on a device.

Called Mobile Verification Toolkit or MVT, the open-source command-line tool works on a set of codes available on GitHub. Executing it, however, is simply too complicated for a regular smartphone user.