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It doesn't matter. The Whatsapp exploit affected both IOS and Android: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/whatsapp-vulnerability-left-ios-open-to-spywa

It doesn't matter. The Whatsapp exploit affected both IOS and Android: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/whatsapp-vulnerability-left-ios-open-to-spyware-attack https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/05/13/whatsapp-vulnerab...

amelius 7y ago
That's interesting. How would that work? Under Android, all apps effectively run inside a Java sandbox, right? So how would the attackers be able to install spyware through Whatsapp?
- peteretep 7y ago
  I may well be proven wrong by further revelations, but: > Large amounts of data were exfiltrated from Bezos’s phone within hours I could see a cross-platform WhatsApp message that leaked WhatsApp data?
- verroq 7y ago
  There are more exploit chains for Android and iOS that can be used once RCE is achieved.
- all_blue_chucks 7y ago
  They only had to spy on whatsapp, so they could do it all in the same sandbox.
- angry_octet 7y ago
  Since WhatsApp whines incessantly unless you give it various permissions it might have already had the ability to access photos etc. As well as sending whatever is in its directory or using a local priv escalation.
- TwoBit 7y ago
  Through a sandbox exploit of course.