{"id":9,"date":"2019-10-20T07:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democontent.codex-themes.com\/sites\/agency-media\/?p=9"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T15:11:10","slug":"wormable-apple-icloud-bug-allows-automatic-photo-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomcatorange.com\/new\/2019\/10\/20\/wormable-apple-icloud-bug-allows-automatic-photo-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Wormable Apple iCloud Bug Allows Automatic Photo Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wormable Apple iCloud Bug Allows Automatic Photo Theft<\/h5>\n

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Ethical hackers so far have earned nearly $300K in payouts from the Apple bug-bounty program for discovering 55 bugs, 11 of them critical, during a three-month hack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A group of ethical hackers cracked open Apple\u2019s infrastructure and systems and, over the course of three months, discovered 55 vulnerabilities, a number of which would have given attackers complete control over customer and employee applications.<\/p>\n

Of note, a critical, wormable iCloud account takeover bug would allow attackers to automatically steal all of a victim\u2019s documents, photos, videos and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The discovery by hackers Sam Curry, Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipour, Samuel Erb and Tanner Barnes demonstrated key weaknesses in the company\u2019s \u201cmassive\u201d infrastructure while it also earned the team nearly $300,000 to date in rewards for their efforts, Curry wrote in an extensive blog post<\/a> detailing the team\u2019s findings.Article’s intro is courtesy of Threatpost<\/p>\n

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