Apple plans to fix a vulnerability that a security company said
may have exposed more than half a billion iPhones to break
through over 6 years.
This software bug, found on iPads, also discovered by
Zikobs, a company specialized in mobile phone security and
is based in San Francisco while investigating a sophisticated
cyber-attack on a customer at the end of 2019.
Zikops CEO Zuk Avraham said that evidence found
that this vulnerability exploited in at least 6 electronic
hacks.
A spokesman from Apple acknowledged that there was a defect
in the Apple e-mail software system with iPhone and iPad
devices known as (Mail App) and said that the company
reached a solution that will be available within the next
update of millions of devices sold globally.
Apple declined to comment on Avraham’s research, which was
published Wednesday and indicates that the vulnerability can
access remotely and that it was already used to hack into
the devices of VIP users.
Avraham said he found evidence that a malicious program had
exploited a vulnerability in the Apple iOS operating system
since January 2018. He could not identify the hackers and
Reuters could not independently verify his claim.
