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On Monday, Apple published updates for its mobile operating systems for iOS and iPados, which the company said that the company said “can be used in a highly sophisticated attack against certain target individuals.”
In the release note for IOS 18.3.1 and iPados 18.3.1The agency has said that the weakness has allowed USB limited mode to disable “on a lock device”. Introduce In 2018USB limited mode is a security feature that blocks the power to transmit data through any USB connection for an iPhone or iPad if the device is not unlocked for seven days. Last year, Apple has revealed one more security feature These devices make it stronger to law enforcement or criminals using forensic equipment to access the data of these devices, if they are not unlocked for 72 hours, reboot it.
Based on the language used in security updates, Apple indicates that attacks were probably conducted with physical control of a person’s device, which means that this error was abusing a person’s Apple devices had to be connected to a forensic device Cellar Or GreakerTwo systems that allow law enforcement to unlock and access the data stored on the iPhone and other devices.
Weakness Bill Marczak discoveredA senior researcher at Citizens Lab, a group of Toronto University that investigates cyberpets against civil society.
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Apple did not respond to any request for comment by Press Time.
Marcak told TechCrunch that he could not comment on the record at the moment.
It is unclear at this moment that those who were responsible for abusing this error and whom it was used against it. However in the past there are cases registered where law enforcement agencies have used forensic equipment, which usually abuses Zero-day error On a device like the iPhone, to unlock the devices and access the data inside.
In December 2024, Amnesty International Serbian Authority published a report registered by multiple attacks by Authorities They used Cellbrite to unlock the phone of the country staff and journalistsAnd then install malware on them.
Protective researchers say that according to Amnesty, celebrite forensic devices were probably used “widely” on people in civil society.
