Thousands of iPhones were compromised using the Coruna exploit kit, which chained 23 iOS vulnerabilities into advanced attacks used for espionage and cybercrime.

He also feels that good, highly technical material on exploit writing — an area that can be very nuanced and complex — isn’t as widely available online as, for example, security testing resources.

Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group. In a blog ...