Security News > 2021 > May > Apple AirTag jailbroken already – hacked in rickroll attack
Apple recently announced a tracking device that it calls the AirTag, a new competitor in the "Smart label" product category.
Products like the AirTag also announce themselves with regular Bluetooth beaconing transmissions, just like your phone does when it's in discoverable mode.
If someone else swipes an NFC-enabled phone near an AirTag, it presents them with a supposedly anonymous URL pointing to the Apple server found.
As you probably expected to hear, AirTags are meant to be resilient against hacking, or jailbreaking as it is commonly called on Apple devices.
Apple.com inside the firmware so that a "Lost" AirTag would misdirect an inquisitive iPhone not to Apple's legitimate site.
Of course, there's still the risk of someone using a booby-trapped AirTag as a lure to trick Good Samaritan iPhone users into visting a fake URL and giving themselves away.