Google finds 'indiscriminate iPhone attack lasting years'
The attack affected all models of iPhone, up until the latest version, Google's team said
The attack was said to be carried out using websites which would discreetly implant malicious software to gather contacts, images and other data. Mr Beer and his team said they discovered attackers were using 12 separate security flaws in order to compromise devices. Most were bugs within Safari, the default web browser on Apple products.Once on a person’s iPhone, the implant could access an enormous amount of data, including contacts, images and GPS location data. It would relay this information back to an external server every 60 seconds, Mr Beer noted.
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