Re: Are iPhones subject to ransomware attacks?

On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:11:11 -0000 (UTC), bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Are iPhones subject to similar attacks?

To own an iPhone is to already be hacked and probably also exploited.
Especially if you're not on the single one release Apple fully supports.
 https://hothardware.com/news/apple-admits-only-fully-patches-security-flaws-in-latest-os-releases

The iPhone iOS is the most exploited smartphone operating system, so if any
of those many exploits in the wild happen to be ransomware, then... yes.
    https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

Over the past few years, Apple has been notified of one or two zero-day
bugs every month in the iPhone iOS (and to the macOS but this is about
iPhones) so in addition, being the smartphone with the most zero-day holes,
if one of those are ransomware... then yes to that also - but the exploits
are more significant since those holes in iOS have to be exploited first.
 https://www.securityweek.com/apple-warns-of-newly-exploited-ios-17-kernel-zero-day/