US government iPhone-hacking toolkit leaks into the wild, fueling espionage and crypto theft

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Source: WIRED
US government iPhone-hacking toolkit leaks into the wild, fueling espionage and crypto theft
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Google and iVerify describe Coruna, a highly sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit that uses 23 iOS vulnerabilities to silently install malware when a user visits a compromised website. Traced through campaigns—from a suspected US-government origin to a Russian espionage operation in Ukraine and later to a for-profit crypto-theft campaign—it appears tens of thousands of devices may already be infected, with Apple patching related flaws in iOS updates.

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