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During the coronavirus lockdown, professional hacker Ian Beer, a member of Googles hacking team Project Zero, developed a way to remotely hijack iPhones simply by pointing a homebrewed antenna at them.<\/p>\n
Beers technique requires only about $100 worth of equipment, Motherboard reports, and granted him total control of whatever phones he targeted. This is Beers specialty, but the fact remains that his comparatively-simple hack made the iPhones security measures seem disturbingly trivial.<\/p>\n
In an eerie video, Beer hijacks 26 iPhones at once with a single broadcast. The hack sends out a WiFi signal that will work even if the target phones arent connected to the internet, according to Motherboard.<\/p>\n
In a longer and more technically-dense video, Beer explains how the broadcast works and how it can be propagated among iPhones even beyond those that were initially targeted.<\/p>\n
Theres something hauntingly beautiful watching all these iPhones die at slightly different times, as they get a WiFi broadcast packet of death, Chris Evans, the original head of Project Zero, tweeted.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Apple fixed the bugs that Beers hack targets with its May release of iOS 13.5, according to Motherboard, which was released earlier this year. But the hack still poses a security threat, aside from the broader implications of how easily Beer was able to develop it.<\/p>\n
Not every iPhone has been updated, and cybersecurity expert Ray Redacted warns that iPhones sitting in police custody, previously inaccessible, could be cracked open with an exploit like Beers.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Watch This Google Hacker Pwn 26 iPhones With a WiFi Broadcast Packet of Death [Motherboard]<\/p>\n
More on cybersecurity: The FBI Forced A Suspect To Unlock His iPhone With His Face<\/p>\n
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