"Google Researcher Demonstrates iPhone Exploit With Wi-Fi Takeover"

A security researcher with Google's Project Zero discovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to take over a person's iPhone without having to trick victims into clicking any malicious links or downloading malware. The exploitation of this vulnerability only requires that the hacker is within Wi-Fi range of a person's phone. Ian Beer, the Google researcher who discovered this vulnerability, demonstrated the use of a Raspberry Pi and off-the-shelf Wi-Fi adapters to steal photos from an iPhone in a different room within a few minutes. Beer also showed how the same vulnerability allowed him to repeatedly reboot more than 20 iPhones simultaneously. This article continues to discuss Beer's demonstrated exploitation of the iPhone vulnerability, from where the vulnerability stems, the patch released to address it, and other discovered iOS vulnerabilities.

CNET reports "Google Researcher Demonstrates iPhone Exploit With Wi-Fi Takeover"