Other Most sophisticated iPhone attack ever used a hidden hardware feature to backdoor iOS

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Most Sophisticated iPhone Attack Ever Used A Hidden Hardware Feature To Backdoor iOS - BGR

Kaspersky says Operation Triangulation is the most sophisticated iPhone hack ever, involving a mysterious hidden hardware component.

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Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs.

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So, given that this attack is a) highly sophisticated, b) requires exploiting multiple vulnerabilities, c) cannot be fully explained by researchers, and d) the vulnerabilities have likely been patched.. the majority of users are safe from this 0-day attack?

 

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So, given that this attack is a) highly sophisticated, b) requires exploiting multiple vulnerabilities, c) cannot be fully explained by researchers, and d) the vulnerabilities have likely been patched.. the majority of users are safe from this 0-day attack?

"Before you panic, you should know this iPhone attack was used by a highly advanced entity to spy on unnamed key political figures. You’re not looking at a malware attack that will empty your bank account, or that targets regular users. Even though the vulnerabilities were abused for four years, mass deployment wasn’t the goal. Also, Apple has patched all the vulnerabilities, so Operation Triangulation might not even work anymore."