The spyware installed on iPhones were able to give hackers access to information such as location, contacts as well as information from popular instant messaging apps such as Telegram, iMessage, and WhatsApp even if they were encrypted. What info has been stolen from the affected users? Google did not name which neighborhoods, ethnic groups, or cities might have been the targets.
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The moment iPhone users were visiting the infected sites, their servers were able to install a form of monitoring spyware.Įven though Google refused to name the websites, the company’s spokesperson confirmed that the tactics of exploiting the iOS included sites that are usually visited by people living in a specific geographic region or being part of particular ethnic groups.
According to the cybersecurity researchers, affected users were not targeted in a discriminative way, but all iPhone users who visited the websites without any anti-virus protection have been infected with malicious software.
The team working for the largest search engine in the world confirmed that multiple websites have been hacked and used as tools to attack iPhone users who visit them. Google’s Project Zero team, a division of Google that tries to find and report security vulnerabilities across popular systems, confirmed in a blog post that they had found evidence of attempted mass iPhone hack that has likely affected thousands of people over the last couple years. Last week computer security specialists from Google announced that thousands of iPhones had been hacked using a vulnerability seen in almost every version from iOS 10 through to the latest version of iOS 12.
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