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iPhone 7 Compromised Several Times at Hacking Event

Iphone 7 compromised several times at hacking event

The iPhone 7 has once again been hacked at Zero Day Initiative’s Mobile Pwn2Own competition, only one day after the device was compromised twice using different exploits.

Since it’s one of the most popular mobile devices worldwide, it makes sense for the iPhone to be a preferred target by security researchers at the hacking competition, and after day one when it got compromised twice, the iPhone 7 was breached two more times on day two.

It happened after 360 Security targeted Wi-Fi on the iPhone and managed to exfiltrate data from a device, which in turn earned $20,000. Interestingly, 360 Security attempted to exploit a bug that was used to compromise the iPhone 7 on day one as well, and this could be a bit worrying since it appears that more security researchers might be aware of the issue.

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