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by trueismywork 696 days ago
That's why I disable HTML in emails
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Just to be aware that's a start but it's not a full mitigation. Some of the prominent zeroclick exploits have been "rich content" in messaging products such as whatsapp[1] and imessage[2].

Definitely not an expert but I'm presuming they take advantage of the "helpful" behaviour those apps have to preview content and then pair that with some sort of exploit in the library that parses/displays the content. So say they have an exploit in a jpeg library that whatsapp uses then they send a specially-crafted jpeg via whatsapp, whatsapp "previews" the image and that triggers the exploit to compromise the jpeg library and pwn the user.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537a...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/01/zero-click-ios-ma...