iOS 11 comes back to the attention of the whole world with a new extremely important vulnerability discovered on iPhone and iPad, this allowing hackers to trick us in order to steal important data from us. The vulnerability was discovered in the recently implemented system that allows scanning QR codes using the iPhone and iPad camera in iOS 11, it can be exploited to trick us into accessing unknown websites from the terminals.
iOS 11 can be exploited because when the iPhone and iPad scan a QR code with the Camera application, users are told that they are accessing a website, but in reality they are accessing a completely different one. An experiment with the QR code below tricks users into thinking they will access the Facebook.com page to log into their account, when in reality they are accessing the website of the cyber security researchers from which the vulnerability warning comes.
iOS 11: WARNING, IMPORTANT Vulnerability on iPhone and iPad
iOS 11 tricks users by not showing them the exact URL they are about to open, but only a text entered by the hacker trying to trick people. Everything is possible thanks to an exploitation of the way in which the new function of reading QR codes in iOS 11 was implemented in the iPhone and iPad by the Apple company, the Americans seem not to have tested it properly before the launch.
"If you scan [the QR code below] with the iOS (11.2.1) camera app, it will show this notification: Open "facebook.com" in Safari. But if you tap it to open the site, it will instead open https://infosec.rm-it.de/"
iOS 11 has had this vulnerability for a very long time on iPhone and iPad, it being reported to the Apple company since December 23, 2017, but more than 3 months have passed and it has not yet been repaired by the Americans. Considering the way things have moved, it is very unlikely that the problem will be solved soon, as Apple is not interested in providing total security for iOS 11 users, although it boasts that it does.
