Apple, Facebook Employees Hacked

Malware responsible

Reason Staff | 2.21.2013 10:36 AM

ZDNet's Zack Whittaker detailed the waterhole attack that was injected into a popular iPhone Dev SDK website (no link love due to the potential threat) which compromised the computers of visiting employees from Apple, Facebook (and potentially Twitter, too) using a zero day exploit in the Java web plug-in.

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