Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2020
Tens of Al Jazeera employees were targeted in a cyber espionage campaign leveraging a zero-click iOS zero-day vulnerability to hack their iPhones. Researchers from Citizen Lab reported that at least 36 Al Jazeera employees were targeted in a cyber espionage campaign leveraging a zero-click iOS zero-day vulnerability to hack their iPhones. The attackers used an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2020
Google Project Zero expert Ian Beer on Tuesday disclosed a critical “wormable” iOS flaw that could have allowed to hack iPhone devices. Google Project Zero white-hat hacker Ian Beer has disclosed technical details of a critical “wormable” iOS bug that could have allowed a remote attacker to take over any device in the vicinity over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2020
Two zero-day flaws in the default mailing app pre-installed on iPhones and iPads allow attackers to hack the devices just by sending emails. Experts at cybersecurity firm ZecOps have discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhone and iPad devices that have been exploited in a series of attacks that targeted iOS high-profile users since at least January 2018. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2019
A malvertising campaign that involved more than 100 publisher websites targeted iPhone users to deliver the Smart Krampus-3PC Malware. According to The Media Trustâs Digital Security & Operations (DSO) team, iPhone users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign that has impacted more than 100 publisher websites, including online newspapers and international weekly news magazines. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2019
This week, Apple addressed a flaw that can be exploited to trigger a DoS condition (AirDoS) iPhones and iPads by forcing them to continuously display a popup message. The denial-of-service (DoS) attack was discovered by The security researcher Kishan Bagaria devised a DoS attack dubbed the AirDoSÂ that works against iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
New problems for Facebook, it seems that the social networking giant is secretly using the camera while iPhone users are scrolling their feed. Is this another privacy issue for Facebook? The iPhone users Joshua Maddux speculates that Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while youâre scrolling your feed. Maddux published footage […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2019
Apple replied to Google about the recent report suggesting iPhones may have been hacked as part of a long-running hacking campaign. Apple criticized the report recently published by Google that claims that iPhones may have been hacked by threat actors as part of a long-running hacking campaign. Apple defines the report as inaccurate and misleading. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2019
The Chinese face-swapping ZAO app that allows users to create photos starring along their favorite characters is raising privacy concerns. The ZAO app is one of the most downloaded applications, but it made the headlines due to privacy concerns. The AI-based iPhone app was released on august 30, 2019, it allows its users to create […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2019
Google researchers discovered that iPhone devices could be hacked by tricking owners into visiting specially crafted websites. Researchers at Google Project Zero discovered that it was possible to hack iPhone devices by visiting specially crafted websites. Earlier this year, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) experts uncovered an iPhone hacking campaign, initially, they spotted a limited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2019
Apple has released an emergency patch in iOS 12.4.1 that addresses the CVE-2019-8605 use-after-free vulnerability that allowed iPhone jailbreak. Recently, Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability it had already fixed, making current versions of iOS vulnerable to hackers and allowing the jailbreak of the devices. Experts discovered that the iOS version 12.4 released in June has reintroduced a security […]
