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Google described the hacking group as "likely Russian government-backed." Huntley said that they were able to “strongly link aspects of the attacks to other previously known operations attributed to Russian government actors.”The hackers were the same ones who targeted Windows users in a wide-scale email phishing campaign described by Microsoft in two reports published in May. At the time, Microsoft said that if the targets of that campaign clicked on the phishing email from an iOS device, they would be exploited with the WebKit exploit found by Google. In its report on Wednesday, Google researchers Maddie Stone and Clement Lecigne try to answer the question: why have there been so many zero-days exploited in the wild this year? According to Google's tally, there have been a total of 33 zero-days exploited in the wild in the first half of the year, compared to 22 which were detected overall last year.Do you research vulnerabilities on products made by Apple, Google, or Microsoft? We’d love to hear from you. You can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, OTR chat at lorenzofb@jabber.ccc.de, or email lorenzofb@vice.com
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