Millions of users’ iPhones are likely to be hacked

A flaw in Apple’s phones and iPads has been revealed, leading to the possibility that users’ iPhones could be hacked, the company was unaware of the flaw.

ZackOps, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company, discovered the flaw and said it would make more than half a billion iPhone users easy targets for hackers. The company says the bug also exists in iPads.

The aforementioned security company discovered the flaw in 2019 when they were working on a cyber attack complaint from one of their clients.

The flaw was also used as a tool in six more cyber attacks, targeting high-profile users from Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The company says that in this hacking, a blank email is sent to the users which upon opening the mobile system crashes and the mobile restarts. Hackers gain access to data during the restart.

The company’s chief executive, Zach Oraham, says he personally witnessed this flaw in 2018.

It appears that Apple was unaware of the flaw, but an Apple spokesperson said the company was aware of it and was working on a fix that was soon rolled out to iPhone users via an update. will go

According to Zack Orahm, this hacking could be part of several larger suspicious cyber activities that have yet to be traced.

2 Independent Security Researches have also confirmed this ZackOps report and they also believe that the information is incomplete and more links are yet to be found.