Shouldn't this headline read "Apple fixes bug"?
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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This is why it's important these devices are available. Got to find and fix these sorts of vulnerabilities
Exactly what i was thinking. This is the flipperzero working as intended.
Seriously!
Such A easy to exploit issue that they package it into a consumer market tool.
Because if that's what's available to nontech folks, Imagine what a professional criminal tool has.
Good right? Congrats. You did a security.
One of the best lines from Armageddon:
"Sir, the override. It's been overridden."
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Apple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users’ phones requiring a restart.
Flipper Zero is a small multi-tool able to mimic NFC, RFID, or other radio signals.
With that, a Flipper Zero user could stand in a busy intersection and hit all iPhones in a 30-foot radius with popup notifications, enough to make the Apple device lock up and require a restart.
You can’t get the Xtreme firmware from Flipper’s own third-party app store, but it is still easy for anybody to download and install it on their NFC-replicating device.
The latest iOS update added a number of handy features like the Journal app, but as usual, Apple doesn’t expand on all its security fixes in its release notes.
Notably, iOS 17.3 is supposed to add a heap of anti-theft features, but we’ll need to wait and see whether Apple or any other device maker can put a stop to these annoying Bluetooth messages altogether.
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I thought Flipper was that dolphin
Yes, we just discovered there where thousands of them, and they are Transformers. They become small white and orange that can control the world
Little bastards.
is Android vulnerable to targeted NFC ?
It's Bluetooth here, and possibly. Apple was handling a class of pairing attempts poorly. Android could do the same thing. It currently seems like that's not the case, and there are a lot of eyes looking at what's open source.
Maybe, but Android keeps rewriting its Bluetooth stack from scratch
Android’s current Bluetooth stack has only been around for like 2.5 years
So it’s also less battle tested, probably, although less likely to have memory corruption bugs
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