Security News > 2021 > January > Google discloses hacking campaign targeting Windows, Android users

Project Zero, Google's 0day bug-hunting team, revealed a hacking campaign coordinated by "a highly sophisticated actor" and targeting Windows and Android users with zero-day and n-day exploits.

The Project Zero team, in collaboration with the Google Threat Analysis Group, discovered a watering hole attack using two exploit servers in early 2020, each of them using separate exploit chains to compromise potential targets.

One of the exploit server used in those hacking operation was used to target Windows users, while the other specifically attempt to compromise Android devices.

While no Android zero-days were used in the Android exploit chain, "[b]ased on the actor's sophistication, we think it's likely that they had access to Android 0-days, but we didn't discover any in our analysis," Project Zero said.

All three Windows zero-days were addressed by Microsoft in the April 2020 Patch Tuesday, while the Chrome zero-day was patched by Google in February 2020 with the release of Chrome 80.0.3987.122 after discovering an exploit in the wild.

The Project Zero team also published separate reports about the Chrome "Infinity Bug" used to target Android users, the Chrome, Android, and Windows exploit chains, as well as the post-exploitation procedure used on rooted and compromised Android devices, as observed in the attacks.

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