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On Monday, Apple has released updates for mobile operating systems for iOS and iPadar, notifying the company’s “Extraordinary attack on special targeted attacks.”
In release notes iOS 18.3.1 and iPadarar 18.3.1The company allowed the weakness to disable the USB-restricted regime “on the locked device”. Introduced In 2018The USB restricted mode is a security feature that prevents an iPhone or iPad to send information on a USB connection if the device is not opened in seven days. Last year Apple has left another security feature To obtain information on these devices, restart the devices in the event of law enforcement or criminals using the judicial authorities.
According to the language used in security update, Apple is likely to show that a person’s device is implemented in physical control of a person, that is, a person who abuses the defect is connected to a device device similar to apples Cellbrite or SaltyTwo systems that allow law enforcement to unlock and access data stored on iPhones and other devices.
Sensitivity Bill was found by MarczakA large researcher in the citizen laboratory, a university of Toronto is investigating civilians against civil society.
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Apple did not respond to a survey for the interpretation of the press.
Marczak told Techcrunch that could not comment on the record at the moment.
It is not known at this point where it is responsible for abusing this defect. However, in the past, law enforcement agencies are usually documented in the past used by judicial instruments Zero Daily Defects Unlock devices on devices such as iPhone and access the data inside.
In December 2024, Amnesty International broadcast a report documenting a number of attacks on the Serbian authorities They used Cellebrite to open their telephones of activists and journalists in the countryThen install them malicious programs.
Security researchers, Cellebrite judicial facilities, according to amnesty, said the people in civil society were used “wide”.
