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U.S. military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine

Publisher description: Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.

TechCrunch | Mar 10, 2026 | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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Two former employees of government contractor L3Harris told TechCrunch that Coruna was, at least in part, developed by the company’s hacking and surveillance tech division, Trenchant. The two former employees both had knowledge of the company’s iPhone hacking tools. Operation Triangulation was first revealed by Kaspersky in 2023.

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