Apple's Find My network, used to locate iOS and macOS devices – and more recently AirTags and other kit – also turns out to be a potential espionage tool.
In short, it's possible to use passing Apple devices to sneak out portions of information from one place to another, such as a computer on the other side of the world, over the air without any other network connectivity.
Fabian Bräunlein, co-founder of Positive Security, devised a way to send a limited amount of arbitrary data to Apple's iCloud servers from devices without an internet connection using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) broadcasts and a microcontroller programmed to function as a modem. That data can then be retrieved from the cloud by a Mac application. In a
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
