Nasty Safari bugs let hackers take over your Mac and iPhone's mic and camera.

Nasty Safari bugs let hackers take over your Mac and iPhone's mic and camera


You know how some people have a sticker over their MacBook's webcam? Well, those people might be onto something.

Wired reports that Apple recently patched a nasty Safari bug, which allowed hackers to take over the victim's webcam and microphone and spy on them.

The bugs (there were several of them) were found by security researcher Ryan Pickren. He says that, by combining several of the bugs together, an attacker was able to create a web link which would trick Safari into handing over control to the computer's webcam and microphone.

Wired claims that an attacker perusing these bugs would be able to "quietly" launch the victim's webcam and microphone and use them to record video and audio as well as take photos. Worse, the bugs worked on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as well.

Pickren says some of these bugs are quite old, dating from "years ago," and that they probably weren't as dangerous then as they are now.


Fortunately, Pickren had disclosed the bugs to Apple (and received a $75,000 bounty for doing so), which fixed them in its January and March updates. This means that your Apple device is safe if you've updated its software to the latest versions.

Still, it's discomforting to learn that losing control of your MacBook's web camera and microphone was as easy as clicking on a single malicious link.

Comments

  1. I think we should social distance our iPhones and make sure they are 2 metres apart!

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  2. It is already fixed. Apple paid the hacker 75k for this find.

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  3. This has already been addressed such click bait.

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  4. no problem .. camera in both device is always hidden .. if mic is hacked .. hacker qont unserstand out local language... yanz zzzz enjoy your hack

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    1. You're right, I haven't got a clue what you just wrote.

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  5. I have many friends and colleagues are still on Mojave due to all sorts of issues with Catalina

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  6. They’d be bored shitless I’m afraid...

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  7. misleading, its actually a zero day hacking by ethical hacker. the fact apple put a bounty for ethical hacker to find the loopholes even before the software is released means its even safer when it is actually release for public use.

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    1. I am aware of beta testing ios and if it was for a beta I wudnt worry about it but what ios is this suppose to happen on?

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    2. ios 13 and the subsequent update i guess..

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    3. I haven't tryed iso for while i usally do look for glitches on betas as mentioned il have to look it up

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  8. Nice Apple nice way to really tighten up the loose ends LOL and I go back to my same message of when it is broken Apple doesn’t seem to know definitively how to fix they only know how to patch or workaround. Technical stuff is not their strong points by all stretches of the imagination. I am myself borderline engineering level according to their senior advisor level. LOL and I know Lenix installations things like that what do you do ha ha Nice Apple nice way to really tighten up the loose ends LOL and I go back to my same message of when it is broken Apple doesn’t seem to know definitively how to fix they only know how to patch or workaround. Technical stuff is not their strong points by all stretches of the imagination. I am myself borderline engineering level according to their senior advisor level. LOL and I know Linnux. things like that. Doesn’t exactly make you an engineer but it does according to Apple LOL just my opinion and observations throughout the years figured I would share them. 02 apparently everybody that doesn’t understand I have an iPhone. And I always have these issues “I’ve never heard of this before quote. And I’m constantly speaking with Senior advisers that I apparently according to the senior advisers know more than they do. That’s what brings me to this odd conclusion in this interesting article which apparently has been patched thankfully. To all the 02 apparently everybody that doesn’t understand I have an iPhone. And I always have these issues “I’ve never heard of this before quote. And I’m constantly speaking with Senior advisers that I apparently according to the senior advisers know more than they do. That’s what brings me to this odd conclusion in this interesting article which apparently has been patched thankfully. To all the people that don’t think I have an iPhone I’ve been with Apple and both android for substantial amount of time since the original Samsung galaxy came out. As well as the original iPhone 4. Been around a little while tried out all always came back to iPhone for their continuity and consistency and up until recently mostly security LOL. Oh of course they’re back up for their phones to the cloud and restoring items where they were exactly and everything else that goes with the restore cloud is the other reason I stick with them. So yeah. I have a iphone

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    1. Guess you have an Android then :)

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    2. https://media1.tenor.co/images/91925cf895852dfa7452101232a41975/tenor.gif?itemid=14997728&fbclid=IwAR0StSprkQFfm-207lxT_upIydgMR9-yaUkNo4ei1iq3ykFchSKiBQE8JHw

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  9. Patched though. Sorry the spoil the over dramatic headline.

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  10. I don't want an article, I want a hacking tutorial about this.

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  11. Haih sikkn nk ttup camera phone & mic kaktok.

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  12. For all iPhone security advocates, enjoy the security <3

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  13. see vulnerability, say exploit

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