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Hacking the iOS/macOS webcam – Apple pays out $75,000 to bug hunter

Ryan Pickren discovered seven zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari browser for iOS and Mac users’ iPhones and Macs that could allow malicious parties to hijack an iPhone or Mac users camera and spy upon them. Pickren was able to exploit his knowledge that, unlike third-party apps, Apple’s own software did not prompt an alert box that they were trying to access the camera and microphone. The attack worked on both the macOS and iOS versions of Safari 13.0.4.4 and 13.1.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/hacking-the-ios-macos-webcam-apple-pays-out-75000-to-bug-hunter/

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