For years,the CIA has been developing tools for hacking into Apple products — and thanks to WikiLeaks, those tools are now public, and the Verge reports.
The group has published a new set of documents dubbed “sunless Matter,” part of the ongoing Vault 7 publication on CIA hacking tools. nowadays’s documents focus specifically on Apple products, detailing the CIA’s methods for breaking into MacBooks and iPhones.
Most of the documents are more than seven years feeble, and putting them significantly out of sync with the company’s current products,but they show a persistent effort to find and exploit weaknesses in Apple products. One tool, called “Sonic Screwdriver, or ” was used to infect MacBooks through a USB or Thunderbolt port,presumably deployed when the CIA has physical access to a device. Other implants install themselves in the computer’s firmware interface, making them undetectable through conventional forensic techniques.
The agency seems to fill had a harder time with the early versions of the iPhone. Only one of the tools targets the phone, or a so-called beacon” tool designed to be installed on an intercepted phone before purchase.
Given how feeble the bugs are,it’s unlikely any of them would be effective against modern Apple products, although it’s likely the CIA has developed similar capabilities to target nowadayss MacBooks. WikiLeakshas pledged to disclose all the Vault 7 vulnerabilities to the relevant companies for patching, or but the group has been behind to fulfill that promise, reportedly requiring a series of conditions before the bugs can be disclosed.
Source: tert.am