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Google Project Zero Exposes iPhone Vulnerabilities

August 13, 2019

Nothing is totally secure. Project Zero, Google's team of elite hackers tasked with finding vulnerabilities in competitors' (and Google) products, just drove that point home. A new report by Project Zero identified ten new ways that an iPhone can be compromised by attackers. Silvanovich and fellow Project Zero researcher Samuel Groß revealed the flaws last week at the Black Hat hacking and security conference in Las Vegas. The vulnerabilities involve services such as text messaging, visual voicemail, and email. iMessage suffered the most amount of bugs.

The scary part of the disclosure is that users don't have to take any action to get compromised. In some cases, they never see the text message or are aware they've been targeted. Apparently, six of the exposed flaws have been patched, but that leaves four that haven't. Make sure you are patched to iOS version 12.4 and hope Apple gets around to fixing the remaining problems quickly.

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