In 2019, Ryan Pickren found a number of vulnerabilities on the iPhone which allowed him to turn on cameras and microphones without users who allow permission.
Pickren, a PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, reported security vulnerabilities to Apple, which in turn remained and paid for a bug gift for $ 75,000.
A report by 9to5mac revealed that voters found another vulnerability but this time on the webcam Mac.
“My hacking managed to get unauthorized camera access by exploiting a series of problems with iCloud sharing and Safari 15.
Although this bug did require the victim to click on” Open “in a human website, it produces more than mereimedia piracy,” Pickren wrote on the website.
Bugs, such as pickren, are more dangerous because it allows hackers to access any website visited by the victims.
So it’s not just a camera that can be hacked but another account like Gmail, Facebook or iCloud can also be attacked.
Pickren on its website has a detailed explanation of how the bug exploits the vulnerability and how dangerous it is.
He then wrote on his site that he explored how design defects in one application could allow various other bugs, not related to more dangerous.
“It’s also a good example of how even with MacOS Gategeeper enabled, an attacker can still reach a lot of damage to deceiving applications that are approved to do evil things,” he wrote.
It was July 2021 chosen by this bug to Apple.
He said that Apple had patched all the problems and he was valued at $ 100,500 under the Bounty Bug program.
Although not confirmed this might be the biggest payment that Apple has ever made under the Boggy Bug program.