About a week ago, security researchers from Google’s Project Zero team provided us with details of an extremely sophisticated malware attack targeting China’s Uyghur Muslim community. Through a chain of zero-day exploits, iPhone owners who visited infected websites often frequented by the Uyghur community had malware installed onto their devices. From there, the malware was able to collect user photos, private messages, and even GPS location data in real-time.
In response to the original Project Zero report, Apple today issued an official response which seemingly categorizes Project Zero’s report as alarmist. Put simply, Apple doesn’t’ deny that the malware existed, but takes issue with the extent of the issue. For instance, the original Project Zero report claims that the infected websites in question were operational for two years. Apple denies this and claims that they were only operational for two months.
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Apple calls Google’s Project Zero report on iOS malware misleading originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 16:28:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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