In September 2021, Apple released new versions of its operating systems for multiple device families containing a fix for the vulnerability.
[1][4] The exploit was discovered by Citizen Lab,[2] who reported that the vulnerability has been used to target political dissidents and human rights activists.
[5] FORCEDENTRY appears to be the same as the attack previously detected and named "Megalodon" by Amnesty International.
[8] In December 2021, Google's Project Zero team published a technical breakdown of the exploit based on its collaboration with Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) group.
[9] In November 2021, Apple Inc. filed a complaint against NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in relation to FORCEDENTRY, requesting injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, and disgorgement of profits[13][14][15] but in 2024 asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit[16][17].