The iPhone can be hacked with just one message without requiring user interaction

Recently, Natalie Silvanovich, a security researcher from Google 's Project Zero bug team, has discovered many vulnerabilities on Apple's iMessage platform, allowing hackers to remotely hack into the iPhone with just one message. requires user interaction.

Hackers just need to send a special message to the victim's phone to extract data from the iMessage application. Even iPhone owners do not need to open this messaging app but are still attacked.

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This vulnerability affects iMessages, not SMS or MMS.

Researcher Samuel Groß made a demo video about the process of hackers hacking iPhone with just a message.

According to researcher Samuel Groß, iMessage is a complex platform with too many extensions such as Animojis, displaying files such as photos and videos, Apple Pay, iTunes . are the reasons for Apple's messaging platform. easy to make mistakes and have many weaknesses.

Silvanovich also discovered other errors, allowing hackers to install malicious code on the user's device with just a text message sent. Silvanovich said that these errors are individual, easy to patch, difficult to detect and have existed for a long time.

Silvanovich presented his findings about vulnerabilities in iMessage at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on August 7. Currently, Apple has patched all six bugs of iMessage on iOS 12.4 and in macOS 10.14.6.

As recommended by security expert Silvanovich, to keep the device safe, the best user should regularly update the operating system to the latest version.

Project Zero bug team said, they have not found similar non-interactive vulnerabilities on Android. However, they also think it is possible that this error also exists on Google's operating system.

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