Two-year-old iOS hacking may also have affected Android and Windows devices

IT SHE PROVES THAT this big blow on iPhones was not just an iPhone after all.

Last week, we told you about a "sustained" attack on iOS devices. It is thought that this would have been the product of a bad actor, perhaps in the employment of a state.

Now, it seems that Android devices and Windows computers are also the main target of attacks, particularly in the Xinjiang region of China, to protect citizens belonging to the Uyghur minority.

There are more and more calls for the Uyghur region to become independent – it is actually called East Turkistan – and as a result, China is increasingly using it to tempt to eliminate any insurgency.

Given China's love for surveillance and Xinjiang's place at the heart of "innovation" in surveillance, it seems we have found our culprit.

according to Forbes, the two-year campaign that we had previously assumed was aimed at only iOS has been transformed during the two-year attack to reflect the property of the gadget by the target group. The embedded malware on the trigger web pages was then adapted for each format.

The Google Project Zero White Hat hacker team report only mentioned iOS, which is great.

Microsoft commented: "Google Project Zero was very specific in its blog post that recently published attacks have used unique exploits on the iPhone and have not revealed similar information to us",

He promised to investigate and take all necessary measures.

Apple has not commented yet because, you know, Apple. In light of today's revelations, Google has made no other comments, but we would like to know why it did not notice the Windows and Android content while doing research on the iOS system.

Although iOS is generally considered pretty secure (unless you use it as a jailbreak), it's thought that not only hackers have found a way to cross all these layers of security, but that many non-Ighur were caught in the crossfire. μ

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