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A recently discovered, mass-targeted watering-hole campaign has been aiming at Apple iPhone users in Hong Kong - infecting website visitors with a newly developed custom surveillance malware. Despite the deep level of surveillance afforded by the malware, researchers said that the campaign doesn't appear to be a targeted effort, apart from focusing on Hong Kong residents.
A recently observed campaign is attempting to infect the iPhones of users in Hong Kong with an iOS backdoor that allows attackers to take over devices, Trend Micro reports. The attack involved the use of malicious links posted on forums popular in Hong Kong, which led users to real news sites where a hidden iframe would load and run malware.
Five high-severity bugs were fixed in the Firefox web browser with the release of version 74 by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday. In total, 12 bugs were patched with six rated as moderate severity and one low-severity bug.
The really bad news is the CPU row, which has only three green squares, and tells you that the Sandcastle builds will only work on iPhone 7 devices for now. If you happen to have a surplus-to-requirements iPhone 7 lying around, and you decide to give this Android thing a spin please let us know in the comments how you got along.
Not happy with your expensive iPhone and wondered if it's possible to run any other operating system on your iPhone, maybe, how to install Android on an iPhone or Linux for iPhones? "The iPhone restricts users to operate inside a sandbox. But when you buy an iPhone, you own the iPhone hardware."
A malicious email campaign aimed at iPhone owners is making the rounds this week, using a bouquet of different themes to scam victims, just in time for Valentine's Day - including a fake dating app. Once the email body is clicked, the victim is taken on "a seemingly endless redirect loop," until neuropathy is left far behind, and the victim lands on what purports to be a dating app for Apple's iPhone.
Apple has just announced its latest round of security updates. There are plenty of critical holes patched in this raft of updates - so we strongly advise you to patch right away, before anyone figures out how to abuse these newly-documented holes for fun or profit.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an analysis of fresh details on the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' iPhone. Also featured: an update on Microsoft's exposure of customer...
Apple is rolling out a new update to its iOS operating system that addresses the location privacy issue on iPhone 11 devices that was first detailed here last month. In December, KrebsOnSecurity pointed out the new iPhone 11 line queries the user's location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data.
On Monday, Google pushed out an update for the iOS version of Smart Lock, its built-in, on-by-default password manager. Smart Lock - which has been available for Google's Chrome browser since 2017 - now also lets iOS users set up their device as the second factor in two-factor authentication, meaning that you no longer have to carry around a separate security key dongle.