From Threatpost
A recently discovered, mass-targeted watering hole campaign has been aiming at Apple iPhone users in Hong Kong – infecting website visitors with a newly developed custom surveillance malware.
The malware specifically targets vulnerabilities in versions 12.1 and 12.2 of Apple’s iOS.
The campaign uses links posted on multiple forums that purport to lead to various news stories that would be of interest to Hong Kong residents, according to a pair of research notes from Kaspersky and Trend Micro. The links lead to both newly created websites set up specifically for this campaign by the operators, as well as legitimate sites that have been compromised. In both cases, a hidden iframe is used to load and execute malicious code.
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