The name comes from the idea of poisoning a central water source that then infects anyone who drinks from it. (From 2021)
on a work computer. But one particularly sinister technique starts with simply visiting a real website. They're called watering hole attacks, and in addition to being a longstanding threat they've been behind several high-profile incidents lately.targeting iPhone users within China's Uyghur Muslim community
“Let’s say attackers are going after democracy activists. They might hack a democracy activist website knowing that all these potential targets are going to visit," says Google TAG director Shane Huntley. “The key thing about why these attacks are so dangerous and can lead to such high success rates is that they take out that important step of the target having to do something or be tricked.
To turn visiting a website into an actual hack, attackers need to be able to exploit software flaws on victims' devices, often a chain of vulnerabilities that begins with. This gives attackers the access they need to install spyware or other malicious software. If hackers really want to cast a wide net, they'll set up their infrastructure to exploit as many types of devices and software versions as possible.
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