Reuters saysApple was direct by the same crew that recentlyhit Facebook , and manage to infect a “ small-scale number ” of the company ’s calculator .
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-got-hacked-last-month-and-is-just-telling-you-5984666
At the second , Apple read “ there was no evidence that any data leave alone ” its facilities , but that could change as the firm works with law enforcement . There are few details to portion out mightily now , but if Apple experience the tone-beginning — very narrow in scale , most potential a focused malware infection — is related to Facebook ’s , then this is a Chinese job .
interrogatively ( and a picayune unsettlingly ) , Apple enjoin it ’ll release a tool after today allowing customers to see if they ’re infect with the same malware used in the onrush — suggesting it might be some sort of louse that could propagate from system to organization undetected . [ Reuters ]
Update : Apple say theinfectionstemmed from “ a vulnerability in the Java hype - in for web browser , ” meaning some people select a compromised site . Again , not a terribly sophisticated attack .
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