Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hack iPhones through malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have originally been built for the US government— A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones, if not more.
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