[saagarjha]

Persistence on iOS is really, really hard.

[luch]

I agree with you on that, but the USA (and probably China) is the nation state least likely to skimp on iOS persistence when targeting Russian AV analysts :D

[saagarjha]

I can only guess at motivations but I would think that when targeting security researchers you’d aim to not have persistence since that would make require leaving evidence of infection on the device.