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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13797027/Warning-millions-Chrome-Safari-users-Russian-cyber-attack.html
Google is urging its users to 'apply patches quickly' and
'keep software fully up-to-date' after discovering a nine-
month-long cyberattack it has tied to Russian spies.
Worse still, this Russian espionage campaign appears to have
leveraged commercial 'spyware' developed by a Greek cyber
intelligence firm — that had been sanctioned by the US
government this March for 'misuse of surveillance tools.'
Spyware made by the firm, Intellexa, based on the island
of Cyprus, have been implicated in attacks everywhere from
Ireland to Vietnam to the United States.
. . .
Apple sez their latest patches fix this ... but
by now the Russians are already working around
those fixes.
In the cyberverse the bad guys ALWAYS have the
advantage, are ALWAYS ahead. Everyone else just
REACTS ... in this case NINE MONTHS late.
Hmm ... maybe they should have SAID something
like NINE MONTHS ago ???
Time for huge class-action lawsuits when knowledge
of cyber-vulnerabilities are NOT disclosed promptly.
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