Hackers associated with the Chinese government compromised websites frequented by ethnic minority Uyghurs earlier this year, programming them to install monitoring implants to spy on the phones of users that visited them, according to researchers
Some of the sites had the capability to infect both Android phones and iPhones, a source familiar with multiple companies' research on the sites, some of which is not public, confirmed to CNN. It wasn't clear, however, that the sites were capable of hacking both types of phones at the same time.
Last week Google's Project Zero, a research team that studies undiscovered, critical software vulnerabilities that leave developers scrambling to write updates to patch them, revealed an unprecedented finding from earlier this year.The team also described watering hole attacks.
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