iOS operating system from Apple is considered relatively safe. Yet even he risk attack of harmful code, even when so utterly normal activities, such as charging. On the way to this, came a team of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
the beginning of their research, the results will be presented at the end of July at the Black Hat security conference, the idea of ??creating an innocent-looking device that could be used to hack the phone. The results of their research are alarming yet. They managed to produce a prototype charger that can covertly install malware onto devices running the latest version of iOS.
Tip: Upgrade your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on iOS 6.1.2“Despite the plethora of defense mechanisms in iOS, we were capable to successfully apply any software to the current generation of Apple devices using the latest version of the operating system. yet are endangered by all users. Our procedure does not require a jailbreak or device or user intervention “ provides scientists in their report.
the design of the charger and named mactans, which is the Latin name of the highly toxic poisonous spider Snova?ky also known as the Black Widow, the team used a commercially available components. At its core is a miniature computer Beagleboan, which comes out to just $ 45 (886 CZK).
miniature computers used in the design of the charger. Computer dimensions are 8.6 × 5.3 cm, resulting charger is about a third larger than the standard source, but it is an alarming concept. More expensive miniature computers are even smaller. If attackers will think seriously, and nothing will stop them invest more resources and compress dimensions charger so that she can not tell from a regular USB charger.
details how damaging the charger works, the authors have not published, but argues that they can penetrate into the iOS device in less than a minute and put malicious code in a place where it is difficult to remove.
Sources: blackhat.com, forbes.com, gizmodo.com
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