Security News > 2020 > April > Zero-Day Warning: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails
The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild, at least, from the last two years to spy on high-profile victims.
The flaws could eventually let remote hackers secretly take complete control over Apple devices just by sending an email to any targeted individual with his email account logged-in to the vulnerable app.
"While ZecOps refrain from attributing these attacks to a specific threat actor, we are aware that at least one 'hackers-for-hire' organization is selling exploits using vulnerabilities that leverage email addresses as the main identifier."
"Noteworthy, although the data confirms that the exploit emails were received and processed by victims' iOS devices, corresponding emails that should have been received and stored on the mail-server were missing. Therefore, we infer that these emails were deleted intentionally as part of an attack's operational security cleanup measures," the researchers said.
Though ZecOps hasn't mentioned any detail on what kind of malware attackers have been using to target users, it did believe that attackers are exploiting the flaws in combination with other kernel issues to successfully spy on their victims.