Hackers Can Make Calls From Your iPhone and Empty Your Wallet
Researcher Collin Mulliner revealed a major iOS flaw through which hackers can force your iPhone to make calls and empty your wallet.
Hackers Can Make Calls From Your iPhone and Empty Your Wallet
iPhone Lovers, here’s a bad news for
you! There is a good chance that you might have at least one app that
makes you vulnerable to a newly discovered security risk. The security
researcher discovered the flaw in iOS which could be targeted through
any messaging apps.
Collin Mulliner, a security researcher
disclosed the vulnerability in his blog this week after reports to
several companies were met with very little enthusiasm. Actually, the
flaw exists in an iOS component called WebView.
With WebView, Developers can display
web-based content within their own apps using Apple’s default Safari
Browser. Colling Mulliner also shared demonstration video of the flaw
being exploited in which he showed that iOS apps like Twitter and
Linkedin are vulnerable to attacks.
He also stated that he also tested
Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Yelp. However, these apps were not
exposed. Mulliner said “There are tons of other messengers and so many
other social media apps that and those could potentially be vulnerable”
According to Colling Mulliner, the
attack is quite easy to pull off. Hackers just need to send a link to a
web page that contains specially-crafted HTML code. Once victim taps the
link the code is executed and can make calls through the compromised
iPhone.
Collin Mulliner said “Any app that has a
WebView in their app where a URL can be loaded that the user can submit
to the app is potentially vulnerable. It’s absolutely simple. Anybody
can do this”
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