Cybersecurity
Google’s Elite Hacking Team Reveals Untimely Bug in iPhone
- Report from Google comes as Apple schedules new iPhone launch
- Hacking operation went on for two and a half years before fix
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On the same day Apple Inc. revealed the date for its latest iPhone event, Google’s privacy team said it had discovered a two-year long vulnerability in the phone-maker’s software.
The bug targeted a small number of websites. Simply visiting those pages could have left iPhone users susceptible to the breach and possibly affected thousands of users per week, Google Zero wrote in a number of blog posts on Thursday.