Why does Google keep finding critical iPhone flaws?

Bug-hunting Project Zero team says latest software exploit exposed users’ ‘deepest secrets’

iOS 12
Apple’s iPhone XS running iOS 12
(Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Security researchers at Google have discovered a major security flaw in Apple’s iPhone range that resulted in sustained indiscriminate attacks over a period of at least two years.

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