Any Apple iPhone can be hacked due to extremely dangerous vulnerabilities that allow hackers to even take control of the Cupertino phones. We are talking about a series of vulnerabilities that exist in the Messages application of the iPhone, and we talked about them a few weeks ago when I told you that some were blocked in iOS 12.4 by Apple, but some are still active , Unfortunately.
At a Black Hat conference that took place yesterday in the USA, a computer security researcher demonstrated how easily Apple's iPhones can be hacked with simple text messages sent to them. It is enough for the user to open the Messages application for the hack to be done, and from there the phone can be controlled completely remotely, without the user knowing what is happening, or what data is being accessed or stolen.
ATTENTION! ANY iPhone Can Be BREAKED Just That SIMPLY
The vulnerabilities are in the iPhone's iMessage system, and the vulnerabilities are so serious that iPhone users can have their messages, or even their pictures, extracted by remote hackers. The researcher who discovered these vulnerabilities works for Google, in a team called "Project Zero", revealing the problems to Apple a few months ago, but not all of them have been solved yet.
"These can be turned into some kind of bugs that will execute code and ultimately be used for weaponized things like accessing your data. So the worst case scenario is that these vulnerabilities are used to harm users. An attacker could send a specially crafted text message to a target, and the iMessage server would send user-specific data back, such as the content of their SMS messages or images.”
The iPhone is presented by Apple as a phone that offers the highest level of security for customers, but apparently only if the iMessage platform is not used for communication with other people. If iMessage is enabled, then hackers can attack iPhones to break them and extract some data from them, or run unsigned code and control many aspects of Apple's iOS operating system.
Unfortunately, there are no methods to protect against this type of attacks, and we just have to wait for Apple to fix its problems to give us the level of security it keeps promising.
