Academic researchers created a new speculative side-channel attack they named iLeakage that works on all recent Apple devices and can extract sensitive information from the Safari web browser.
Their point was that, on macOS, other browsers don’t use the safari engine under the hood like they do on iOS. That commonality is why the article states the exploit works in those browsers on iOS.
“It can be used to retrieve with “near perfect accuracy” data from Safari, as well as Firefox, Tor, and Edge on iOS.”
iOS, not MacBook. iOS used to only allow reskins of Safari, is it still that way?
Yes
The report yesterday also included macOS running on M-Series processors.
Their point was that, on macOS, other browsers don’t use the safari engine under the hood like they do on iOS. That commonality is why the article states the exploit works in those browsers on iOS.
But iOS, not macOS