New coverage provided by Youm7 TV, prepared by Hadeel Al-Banna and presented by Alaa Sheta, regarding shocking news published by Apple, regarding serious security vulnerabilities for “iPhone, iPad, and Mac” devices that might potentially allow attackers to take full control of these devices.
Apple released two security reports on this issue recently, although they haven’t garnered much attention outside of tech publications.
“Apple’s interpretation of the vulnerability means that a hacker can gain full administrative access to the device,” Social Proof Security CEO Rachel Tobak said.
Security experts advised users to update affected devices starting with iPhone 6s and newer phones, many iPad models, including 5th generation and later versions, all iPad Pro models, iPad Air 2, and Mac computers running Mac OS X. S Monterey..
Commercial spyware companies are notorious for identifying and taking advantage of these flaws, exploiting them in malware that surreptitiously infects targets’ smartphones, pulls their contents and monitors targets in real time.
The NSO Group was blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce, and security researcher Will Stravach said he had not seen any technical analysis of the vulnerabilities that Apple had just patched.
Apple released a new update for I phone, shortly following releasing an update following discovering those vulnerabilities in the operating system
Apple called on its users to make sure their devices are updated to the new software, because such vulnerabilities are considered very valuable and are usually exploited in a targeted manner by secret services and surveillance software developers.
