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Google says hackers have put ‘monitoring implants’ in iPhones for years
Visiting hacked sites was enough for server to gather users’ images and contacts.
An unprecedented iPhone hacking operation, which attacked “thousands of users a week” until it was disrupted in January, has been revealed by researchers at Google’s external security team.
- Alex Hern
- The Guardian
The operation, which lasted two and a half years, used a small collection of hacked websites to deliver malware on to the iPhones of visitors. Users were compromised simply by visiting the sites: no interaction was necessary, and some of the methods used by the hackers affected even fully up-to-date…