Paradigm Shift’s usbliter8 exploit targets Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM via USB DFU mode, creating an unpatchable hardware risk.
Paradigm Shift’s usbliter8 exploit targets Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM via USB DFU mode, creating an unpatchable hardware risk.
This requires physical access. I don’t get it, why is this bad?
Someone with physical access can already pull out the disk, clone it, and put in a different disk that boots to an identical looking login, but which actually relays the password back to the attacker.
What more would this exploit allow an attcker with phsycal access that they wouldn’t already have before this exploit?
Disk? This is iPads and iPhones shits soldered on there typically right next to or inside the SOC
People store a lot of sensitive information on their phones and iPhones are big targets for phone theft. Physical access is quite easy once the device is snatched from the owner’s hands.