Hackers Use Bugs To Attack iOS and Android Devices; Google Doesn't Disclose Details

 

Google's cybersecurity team found a cluster of high-end vulnerabilities in iOS, Windows, Android, and Chrome earlier this week. According to Google, these vulnerabilities were in high usage, which means hackers used them to carry out attacks. It is an alarming issue for cybersecurity. Besides this, the vulnerabilities share some similarities, says Motherboard. One can assume that the same cybercriminals exploited them. According to cybersecurity findings, few vulnerabilities hid in font libraries, few in chrome's sandbox to escape, and others controlled the systems. 

It means that the bugs belonged to a string of vulnerabilities used to attack user's devices. As of now, there's no concrete information about who the hacker is and their targets. Usually, whenever bugs are found, it is ethically disclosed to release security patches to fix the issue, before the hackers can exploit them. However, in the current case, it is confirmed that the hackers are using the bugs. In 2019, in a quite similar incident, google had found a string of vulnerabilities that hackers used to attack the Uighur community. In China, the government conducts a massive scale campaign of surveillance and monitoring on the Muslim community. 

Vice reports, "according to a source with knowledge of the vulnerabilities, all these seven bugs are related to each other, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not allowed to talk to the press." However, the experts don't have any information on the present situation, as Google hasn't disclosed anything about the vulnerabilities, the hackers, or the targets. Fortunately, Apple released iOS 12 (released in 2018) security patch, which can fix Apple devices up to the iPhone 5 series. 

It so happens that when a company releases a security patch that fixes old machines, it generally means that the bug is highly dangerous. Still, we can only assume, as no data is available. "In any case, some of these bugs were very critical and gave hackers a lot of power when they used them. The iOS bugs, for example, were so dangerous that Apple pushed updates not just for the current iOS 14, but also for the older, not usually supported, iOS 12," reports the Vice.

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