Which is safer, iOS or Android? It seems to have a different answer.
A few years ago, iOS, with its closed ecology, sat firmly in the first chair of mobile phone system security, which has nothing to say.
Android, on the other hand, has been scolded by users for many years because of its open ecology, giving viruses and harassing Apps an opportunity.
However, with the efforts of Android manufacturers in the past two years, many Android systems have added similar privacy protection functions.
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On the contrary, on apple's side, the iOS system has come out from time to time, and the news of being attacked by Trojan viruses such as "Pegasus" has been reported.
The reversal of word of mouth cannot be discussed, but iOS uses "security protection" as a difference selling point, and the effect is not so obvious.
And in the past two years, Apple's riot operations have been continuous, this no, recently Xiao Lei brushed an explosive news.
Apple actually "took the initiative" to provide users with confidential information to the hacking organization! Good guys, Cook doesn't want to do business anymore?
According to the news, in 2021 Apple once responded to a fake "emergency data request" from hackers and leaked user information.
Apple is not without reason, because these hackers hacked into the email domains of law enforcement officers in multiple countries or regions.
The "urgent data request" is sent from these email domains, and if you do not have experience in this area, it is easy to think that these messages are legitimate and formal.
Well, logically speaking, the apple is wrong, but this pot can't all be buckled on its head.
Because under normal circumstances, Apple will only give user data when a search warrant or subpoena is received.
However, the goose "urgent data request" is an exception, and such requests are only available when there is a "life and death" request.
Everyone can understand that 100,000 is in a hurry, in short, once the request comes out, Apple must hand over the data in a short period of time.
And these "urgent data requests" come from official channels, and companies like Apple are difficult to distinguish between true and false.
So, Apple was so fooled. Another unlucky egg, Facebook's parent company Meta, was also scammed into leaking user data.
Oh, these leaked user information, including user addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses and other private data.
At present, most of the leaked information has been damaged and used for harassment and financial fraud.
If you have recently received frequent spam iMessage, or calendar, family App harassment information, it is estimated that it is unfortunate to be recruited...
Xiao Lei thought that if he could invade the country-level email domain, he must also be the top big guy in the hacking industry, right?
What is dumbfounding is that the average age of these hackers is less than 18 years old... They all belong to a hacking group called the Recursion Team.
Never heard of this organization? It doesn't matter, they participate in another hacking group "Lapsus$", presumably the friends have heard about it recently.
Unlike the mysterious, low-key hackers we remember, Lapsus$ hackers play a high profile.
They are not only very willing to disclose their hacking "achievements", but also keen to mock the hacked object, which is very skinny.
However, there is a saying that the technology of this group of hacker brothers is really strong.
In just half a year, it attacked well-known technology companies such as EA Games, Nvidia, Samsung, Vodafone, Ubisoft and Qualcomm, stealing a large amount of confidential data and extorting money.
For example, at the end of February this year, Lapsus$ publicly said that it had carried out a cyberattack on Nvidia and obtained nearly 1TB of data.
This time the requirements are even more excessive, they not only want Nvidia to completely open source windows, macOS, Linux system GPU drivers, but also ask to lift the RTX 30 series graphics card mining performance limits.
These are all NVIDIA's old books, of course, NVIDIA will not agree, so Lapsus $ began to live.
Lapsus$ first leaked 71,335 Nvidia employee vouchers and prepared to sell LHR algorithm content for $1 million.
Nvidia was not the first victim, lapsus $ to dry the first big ticket, if I remember correctly should be EA game.
The Lapsus$ was so young at the time that they didn't even know how to blackmail the data when they stole it.
So, they chose to let the reporter go and give EA a message: We want to send a blackmail message to EA through you...
By now, lapsus$ taunt skills are full, and they like to hack hacked companies' Zoom video conferencing.
And it's just about mocking company employees and the outside IT consulting firms that help solve the hack.
Lapsus$ is so ostentatious that it has attracted a group of cybersecurity experts to track it down.
Eventually, lapsus$ boss identity was revealed, he was a 16-year-old from Oxford, England, code-named "White".
The young man is actually an autistic person and is currently educated in a special school in Oxford, England, England.
The White family is also completely confused, thinking that he is playing games with the computer, but he did not expect to have a whole Matrix...
White also earned more than 300 bitcoins (about 89 million yuan) by buying and selling the 0day loophole, and achieved "wealth freedom" at a young age.
According to the London police investigation, in addition to White, there were 6 young people "between the ages of 16 and 21" arrested.
However, this time the arrests are all British members, and the impact on the South American headquarters of Lapsus$ should be small.
Perhaps because members were caught trying to converge on the point, Lapsus$ recently posted a message on Telegram announcing that it will be temporarily fixed and that members will be on holiday until March 30 this year.
Then again, in the face of these 7 arrested young men, Xiao Lei's first reaction was to deserve it, and the second reaction that followed was to feel quite a pity.
It is not an exaggeration to say that they have mastered superb hacking skills at a young age and that they are "computer genius teenagers".
Just why don't you go the right way? Being able to break through the cybersecurity of technology giants and even countries is of course very good.
But in the final analysis, these are all illegal and criminal operations, and they will only add trouble to the people and society.
Hopefully, this arrest will make young people wake up to the fact that computer technology is used to benefit people, not to make people upset.