Intelligence agencies globally spy on their citizens often under the pretext of “security reasons.” While this hasn’t been well received in Western countries, others remain a different case. China on the other end is a different ball game.
Last year, Hackread.com reported that the Chinese government is utilizing facial recognition databases for probably months to remotely monitor the Uyghur populace in the Xinjiang region. Now, in a research report released by Volexity – a cybersecurity firm – it has revealed the existence of an iOS vulnerability being exploited to spy on the Uyghurs minority in China.
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Dubbed as Insomnia by researchers; the iOS vulnerability is believed to have been at its maximum usage from January to March 2020 working on iOS versions 12.3, 12.3.1, and 12.3.2 whereas Apple patched the vulnerability in 12.4 in July 2019.
It is worth noting that according to researchers, the group is this campaign is called Evil Eye while the vulnerability itself is exploited to carry out the Waterholing, an attack quite popular among Chinese hackers and previously used in cyberattacks against national data center of an unknown Central Asian country.
Watering holes is a technique in which famous websites are infected with malware so that visitors unknowingly get their devices infected.
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