If you are feeling happy and safe about buying the latest iPhone 13 series phones thinking that you are owning the most secure and privacy-focused smartphone in 2021 then this will be a rude shock for you. Chinese hackers participating in the annual Tianfu Cup in Chengdu, China were able to break the security of the latest iOS 15.0.2 software in seconds. The Tianfu Cup is a competition for hackers to showcase their skills to find and manipulate vulnerabilities and break through security of big tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and others.
The Kunlun Lab team, participating at the event, was able to crack the security of an iPhone 13 Pro live on stage within 15 seconds. The CEO of the Kunlun Lab team is the former CTO of Qihoo 360. As per a report by Forbes, the team used a “remote code execution exploit of the mobile Safari web browser” to break through the iPhone 13 Pro.
And that’s just not it. Another team, called Team Pangu, who is quite popularly known to jailbreak Apple devices won the top prize of $300,000 cash by remotely jailbreaking” the iPhone 13 running iOS 15.
It goes without saying that these hackers have been preparing for a long time for this contest to jailbreak new iPhones in seconds.
So, why did Pangu win? Well, the other team took 15 seconds while Pangu took just one. As per a report by Patently Apple,” obtained the highest control of the iPhone 13 Pro”. This means the hacker could access photos, apps and even delete data from the iPhone 13 Pro. The report said that the hacker was able to exploit “multiple vulnerabilities in the iOS15 kernel and the A15 chip” to bypass the security levels in the new iPhone.
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