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Google security experts announced Thursday, August 29 to have discovered a massive piracy on the iPhone. This virus has allowed mysterious hackers to take control of thousands of iPhones for at least two years, one of the most trusted phones on the market.
With our correspondent in Sillicon Valley, Eric de Salve
The attack lasted from 2016 until last February, until the day Google discovered it and alerted Apple. The company immediately reacted by offering a corrected version of its iOS operating system in February. This is probably the largest hacking ever on the iPhone .
According to Google security experts who discovered it, a simple click on an infected site was enough to install this malware. In a few seconds, the maneuver gave hackers full access to almost all the most personal information of the phone: photos, live geolocation, phone book, messages received or sent on Gmail, IMessage and even on couriers encrypted like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram.
Hackers could even recover all the passwords stored on the phone. Hackers targeting certain communities not identified by Google, which also does not give the number of victims, probably many because infected sites record several thousand connections per week.
Another unknown: Google researchers keep silent about the origin of the virus. But all experts agree that such a long and sophisticated attack could only be carried out by a state, if only because of its estimated cost of tens of millions of dollars. But a probably newbie, who makes mistakes according to Google. An IP address has been forgotten about the virus, allowing to identify its origin.