Australian security researcher Mark Dowd has disclosed a serious vulnerability in AirDrop, Apple’s over-the-air file sharing service built into iOS and Mac OS X. The vulnerability allows anyone within the range of an AirDrop user to silently install a malicious app on a target Apple device. The malicious app can fool the victim’s iPhone into believing the malicious app has the same rights as a normal app. Apple has responded to the vulnerability by adding a sandbox to AirDrop in iOS 9 that would prevent anyone from writing files to arbitrary locations on the device via AirDrop.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/hack-ios-airdrop.html