‘iPhone bug also accessed WhatsApp, Telegram chats’: Researchers
San Francisco: Google researchers have identified a vulnerability that accessed all the database files on the victim’s iPhone used by end-to-end encryption apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and iMessage. In one of the biggest attacks against iPhone users, researchers working in Google’s Project Zero team earlier discovered several hacked websites that used security flaws in iPhones to attack users who visited these websites. The malicious websites may have compromised personal files, messages, and real time location data of iPhone users. After they reported their findings to Apple, the Cupertino-based tech giant patched the vulnerabilities. Later, they also revealed that the users’ chats in WhatsApp and Telegram were also compromised. “In the earlier posts, we examined how the attackers gained ‘unsandboxed’ code execution as root on iPhones,’’ said Ian Beer from Google. (IANS)