Security News > 2020 > December > iPhone Bug Allowed for Complete Device Takeover Over the Air

Details tied to a stunning iPhone vulnerability were disclosed by noted Google Project Zero researcher Ian Beer.

Until now, were known about the bug that could have allowed a threat actor to completely take over any iPhone within a nearby vicinity.

The hack could of been preformed over the air without even interacting with the victim's device.

Until then the bug could have allowed someone to "View all the photos, read all the email, copy all the private messages and monitor everything which happens on [an iPhone] in real-time" without clicking on anything, Beer said.

Installing a prototype implant that can fully access the device took Beer about two minutes, but he said he could have likely pulled it off in a "Handful of seconds" with a better exploit.

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https://threatpost.com/iphone-bug-takeover-over-the-air/161748/