Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery
securelist.com
Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs.
  • NixEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Iirc lockdown mode would prevent this exploit from working

    • @GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Lockdown mode was released by Apple after these devices had already been infected for 3+ years, and was a response to evidence that iMessage preview functionality was already actively being exploited to spy on people.