![]() ![]() Some experts, in any case, were not surprised that somebody claimed the prize-although one researcher is skeptical that Zerodium will actually follow through on its promise. This exploit would allow them to get around any security measures and get into the target’s iPhone to intercept calls, messages, and access data stored in the phone.Ī source, who used to work for the NSA, told Motherboard a few weeks ago that $1 million is actually a good price for such an exploit, because “if you sell it to the right people” you can fetch much more.Īpple did not respond to a request for comment. ![]() Intelligence agencies such as the NSA and the CIA have run into problems when trying to hack into iPhones to spy on their targets, and the FBI has publicly complained about Apple’s encryption for months. He also declined to say how much he is planning to sell this exploit for.īut there’s no doubt that for some, this exploit is extremely valuable. They offer higher rewards than what tech companies usually pay out, and keep the vulnerabilities secret, revealing them only to certain government customers, such as the NSA.īekrar declined to identify the team that won the prize, as well as details about the exploits they found. (Apple does not offer a bug bounty program.)īekrar and Zerodium, as well as its predecessor VUPEN, have a different business model. There are also several bug bounty middle men, such as HackerOne and Bugcrowd, who act as platforms for crowdsourced bug-hunting. Many tech companies in the last few years, such as Facebook and Google, have launched bug-bounty programs, offering rewards to friendly hackers who find vulnerabilities and disclose them to the company so that they can get fixed. No one had found a way (at least that’s publicly known) to jailbreak an iPhone remotely for more than a year, since iOS 7. “The winning team has submitted the exploits just a few hours before the expiration of the Zerodium bounty,“ Bekrar told Motherboard in an email.īekrar explained that the winning team found a “number of vulnerabilities” in Chrome and iOS to bypass “almost all mitigations” and achieve “a remote and full browser-based (untethered) jailbreak.” “Making the jailbreak remotely triggerable via Safari or Chrome requires at least two to three additional exploits compared to a local jailbreak,” Bekrar told me via Twitter direct message, adding that he was mulling over the possibility of extending the challenge.Įventually, however, one of the teams found a way. But both, he said, were “stuck” and couldn’t get around the same hurdle. In fact, in mid October, Bekrar told Motherboard that nobody had claimed the prize yet, even though Zerodium was in contact with two separate teams working independently. In other words, it wasn’t an easy challenge. For example, the Chinese white hat hacking team Pangu already found a way to jailbreak the new iPhone, but that method didn’t work remotely. This essentially meant that a participant needed to find a series, or a chain, of unknown zero-day bugs, not just one, according to Patrick Wardle, a researcher that works at security firm Synack. The initial exploit, according to the terms of the challenge, had to come through Safari, Chrome, or a text or multimedia message. The challenge consisted of finding a way to remotely jailbreak a new iPhone or iPad running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system iOS (in this case iOS 9.1 and 9.2b), allowing the attacker to install any app he or she wants with full privileges. Over the weekend, somebody claimed the $1 million bounty set by the new startup Zerodium, according to its founder Chaouki Bekrar, a notorious merchant of unknown, or zero-day, vulnerabilities. But as the internet adage says, everything can be hacked-even the new iPhone. Please, please stop.Apple devices are widely considered extremely secure and hard to hack. We've seen this type of nonsense from you many times. A different phone won't change anything since I'm certain you will "find" all kinds of nefarious problems with that one, too.Īctually, I'm almost certain I know who your are from your user name. I'm not wasting any more time on your fantasies. ![]() You are seriously off in la-la land with that sentence. Then the INM and Linux systems accessing my iPhone, phone numbers hiding under my child’s old iPad. There's nothing in them that can affect the phone's underlying system. Many that can also be done with a land-line phone. IPhone codes only do simple things, like hide caller ID, and many other little calling tricks. It's a service by your cell provider that does one thing, and one thing only. It cannot in any way forward information off of your phone. This is all nothing but paranoid fantasy.Ĭall forwarding does nothing but cause your number to ring at the number you enter. ![]()
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