iOS has a very serious problem that affects hundreds of millions of users around the world at the moment, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch users being in danger without knowing what is happening. All those who have not installed iOS 13, and are still using iOS 12, or an earlier version, are targeted by attacks by hackers who exploit a very dangerous vulnerability in Safari and redirect them to malicious websites when browsing the Internet.
The very serious vulnerability was unknown to Apple until the end of the summer, and was resolved in iOS 13, but by then more than 1 billion displays of malicious ads were generated on iDevices. We are talking about hundreds of millions of people who saw the hackers' malicious ads, and who were redirected to websites with ads and other malicious content, and both Safar and Chrome, from iOS, were affected.
SERIOUS iOS PROBLEM AFFECTING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of iPhones, iPads
The over 1 billion impressions were played over a period of 2 months on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch screens all over the world, until September 19, when iOS 13 was released by Apple. iOS 13 resolves the vulnerability in such a way that both Safari and Google Chrome for iOS can no longer be exploited, so that users are no longer redirected to malicious web pages when surfing the Internet.
“Attackers bombarded the Internet with over 1 billion malicious ads in less than two months. Attackers targeted iOS and macOS users with zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Safari browsers that were recently patched.”
Apple would have been notified about these vulnerabilities sometime in August, but it only solved them in September, but at least iOS 13 brings the protection that everyone needs at this moment. All those who have not yet installed iOS 13 remain unprotected, and can be redirected by hackers to websites with malicious content, so you have a choice between very poor autonomy for the battery, and protection for browsing the web.
iOS 13 solves other very serious security problems for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, so there are many good reasons to upgrade your devices.
