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Just a wild and crazy guess here...but if you take this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1145778611242319874 https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/s
by jen_h 7y ago
Just a wild and crazy guess here...but if you take this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1145778611242319874 https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1145778611242319874 in context with the following hint:
"To be targeted might mean simply being born in a certain geographic region or being part of a certain ethnic group." (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...)
...and then if you think about what's been going on in Hong Kong recently -- search iPhone and Hong Kong in both languages and you'll find some interesting posts on Twitter that appear not to want folks to know that:
"All that users can do is be conscious of the fact that mass exploitation still exists and behave accordingly; treating their mobile devices as both integral to their modern lives, yet also as devices which when compromised, can upload their every action into a database to potentially be used against them." (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...)
...it kind of reveals itself.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoWhat’s the relation to the first link though? That looks like an old twitter thread.
- jen_h 7y agoDid you look at the screenshot and read the translation? Appears to be a real-time tracking database of Uighurs...
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoIn the first link? Yes, but what does the first link have to do with this attack? I see nothing that ties the two together. Am I missing something in the Google link that relates to that? The list of target services doesn’t even look similar.
- jen_h 7y ago“The command-and-control server can also query for a list of all 3rd party apps and request uploads of their container directories.”