Hackers Steal Photos from iPhone 6s and Hack Nexus 6P

Google's Nexus 6P and Apple'south iPhone 6s may take gone out of the limelight after latest flagship phone releases, only both these devices are considered every bit secure smartphones. Apple tree and Google offering the highest level of security features and protections with their latest devices, including iPhone 6s and Nexus 6P. Only, hackers managed to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars afterwards successfully hacking both these smartphones.

Researchers hack iPhone 6s and Nexus 6P despite latest security patches

Researchers who competed in the 2022 Mobile Pwn2Own in Tokyo won a full prize of $215,000 for breaking into these flagship devices.

The Tencent Corking Security Lab tried to install a rogue application on a Google Nexus 6P without user interaction. The Chinese researchers used two vulnerabilities to achieve this task, and earned $102,500 from Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).

Maybe first Nexus 6p remote pwn in the world?Good job @flanker_hqd @dmxcsnsbh #MP2O picture.twitter.com/twPFj9FLsP

— KEENLAB (@keen_lab) October 26, 2022

Researchers as well hack Apple's iPhone 6s

Coming to the iPhone 6s, the Keen Lab earned some other $52,000 for stealing photos from the smartphone using a apply-after-free vulnerability and a memory corruption bug in the sandbox. This vulnerability worked after Apple pushed out its latest security patches earlier this week. Apple tree had credited the Keen Lab for discovering a serious flaw that could let hackers to hijack a target phone afterwards the victim viewed "a maliciously crafted JPEG" paradigm or a PDF file.

The same squad also tried to install a malicious application on iPhone 6s, but it was but partially successful. The installed app did not survive a reboot due to a "default configuration setting." ZDI awarded another $60,000 for the vulnerabilities used in this partially successful hack.

Out of the full potential payout of $375,000 from ZDI, the Keen Lab managed to earn $215,000. At that place were too cash incentives for hacking the Samsung Milky way S7 phones, but the prizes were lower than those for the Google and Apple devices.

"These are critical in nature equally they allow an attacker to disembalm sensitive information or install a malicious application," ZDI's Brian Gorenc said virtually these vulnerabilities. "We've seen similar exploits recently used in the wild."