Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones::IOS 17.2 cut off Flipper Zero users running the Xtreme third-party firmware from mass-spamming popups at iPhones.
Shouldn’t this headline read “Apple fixes bug”?
Apple has got bugs??
And viruses too
Link?
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Good thing that only impacts iOS 15.7 and below, which no one is using, and it has been patched in 15.8. 👍
Good reason to install those updates!
Most known viruses are patched in most current versions in popular software.
*features
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.”
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.
This reads pretty much misleading to me.
They say the flipper could bomb phones within 30 ft range. Via NFC! I would even doubt them stating a range of 30 mm.
That attack is via bluetooth, not NFC. And the article states exactly that (just checked).
It mostly depends of the antenna setup.
I’m fairly sure you can get several meters of range with an external antenna.
I think a meter is pretty much the limit with most NFC. There is a longer range NFC+ that can reach further, but nowhere near 30ft.
Long range stuff typically is UHF RFID in the 860-960MHz band.
HF NFC at 13.56 MHz can be done up to roughly 20cm, though with passive sniffing you might pick up parts at longer range.
LF NFC is just a mess. I think there were some pretty long range readers available, but nobody should be using that stuff anymore, it’s just horrible. Unfortunately there still are companies using that for access control, so I’m now and then handing out copies of their keys to friends. The main security on those things is that sometimes it takes a few tries to get the your reader detect the tag.
Double shutdown on you!
“ON today’s episode on hacking your flipper…”
Is this another tale of script kiddies ruining a good thing. Jumping the bluebox
No. This makes iPhones safer.
What did they ruin?
The ability of one script kiddy to mess with people’s iPhones.
Well, if one script kiddy can do that, then plenty of more malicious people can, so it’s a naked king situation.