Security News > 2021 > May > iPhone Hack Allegedly Used to Spy on China’s Uyghurs

In 2019, a Chinese security researcher working with the internet security and antivirus company Qihoo 360 unveiled an intricately woven exploit: One that would allegedly let a remote attacker easily jailbreak an iPhone X iOS 12.1.

Allegedly shows, a successful exploit would allow a remote attacker to jailbreak an iPhoneX, with the targeted user none the wiser, allowing the intruder to gain access to a victim's data, processing power and more.

On Thursday, that's exactly what happened: "Virtually overnight," Chinese intelligence allegedly used the exploit as a weapon before Apple could fix the problem.

The publication said that, according to its sources, the U.S. has amassed details of how the Chaos exploit was used to hack China's Uyghur Muslims - a common target of espionage campaigns.

Apple, which had been tracking the attack, had already come to the same conclusion on its own: That the Chaos exploit and the attacks on Uyghurs were "One and the same," as the outlet puts it.

Although he's suggested that the exploit used against Uyghurs was probably used "After the patch release," both Google and Apple have documented how it was used before the January 2019 fix.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/iphone-hack-spying-china-uyghurs/165950/