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September 6, 2019 06:10 pm

Apple Disputes Google's Claims of a Devastating iPhone Hack

In a rare move, Apple has released a statement to comment on the attacks on iPhone users revealed by Google last week. From a report: Last week, Google dropped a bombshell in the form of a long, detailed analysis of five chains of iOS vulnerabilities discovered by its security teams. Google didn't say who was behind the attacks, nor who was targeted, but described the attack as "indiscriminate," and potentially hitting "thousands" of people. Apple disagrees. Friday, Apple published a brief press release that disputes some relatively minor details that Google released about the attacks. Namely, that the attacks lasted for a shorter amount of time and that they were less widespread than Google reported. "First, the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused, not a broad-based exploit of iPhones 'en masse' as described. The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community." Apple wrote. "Google's post, issued six months after iOS patches were released, creates the false impression of 'mass exploitation' to 'monitor the private activities of entire populations in real time,' stoking fear among all iPhone users that their devices had been compromised. This was never the case. Second, all evidence indicates that these website attacks were only operational for a brief period, roughly two months, not 'two years' as Google implies," the statement continued.

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