How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed

How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed

A Google security guru has published details of a critical hole in Apple's iOS that can be exploited by miscreants to hijack strangers' iPhones over the air without any user interaction.


All a hacker would need to do is transmit carefully crafted, malicious AWDL packets to a victim's handheld to gain control of it. AWDL is Apple Wireless Direct Link, Cupertino's proprietary mesh networking protocol that is based on Wi-Fi. You don't need to be on the same conventional Wi-Fi network as your victim to exploit this vulnerability, just within range.


On Tuesday, Google Project Zero's Ian Beer, who reported the flaw to Apple back on November 29, 2019, published a detailed technical account of how he found ..

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