Why should you update your iPhone?

After the Internet monitoring group “Citizen Lab” revealed a tool developed by an electronic monitoring company that enables it to hack iPhone phones, with

unprecedented technology, for 6 months, Apple released a security update for its phones.

The New York Times said that Apple's software update came to "fix a critical flaw in its products that allowed governments to invisibly spy on iPhone users without

 any interaction or click by users."

The head of Apple's security engineering department said in a statement that the vulnerability is used to target specific individuals and "does not pose a threat to the vast majority of our users."

 But this is considered particularly dangerous because it opens the door to hacking without users having to click on a specific link, as is the case with most other cyber attacks.

 It can affect anyone who uses the iMessaging service.

Now, iPhone users can update their phones to iOS 14.8 to protect against potential attacks.

It's as simple as going to your settings, clicking "General" and checking the field that says "System Update".

There has been a proliferation of so-called "zero click" attacks in recent months, and it is widely believed that they were enabled by spyware from the Israeli company NSO.

The company says it only sells its services to government agencies in order to combat terrorism and crime.

In a statement on Monday, the NSO Group did not address the allegations, saying only that it would "continue to provide intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world with life-saving technologies to combat terrorism and crime."

However, researchers say they have discovered multiple cases in which the spyware was spread to dissidents or journalists. And the increasing prevalence of attacks that can infiltrate devices without the user's knowledge means that updating your phone system has never been more important.