We are very used to seeing as all sorts of cyberdelincuentes exploring all kinds of nooks and crannies and possible security flaws in the software for the most popular devices on the market. As it was not going to be otherwise, and while their market share is lower, hackers not only is going to focus on attacks on android devices, but they also have their methods to attack all kinds of products equipped with an operating system iOS.
According to is has commented since Cisco, apparently is has got find the form of attack and steal both your data of user as personal through a simple iMessage. As is was in wait, this problem would affect to the practice all of products of Apple as can be the own iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV or Apple Watch.
It solves this problem of iMessage just updating your computer
As explained Tyler Bohan, researcher at Cisco, apparently with an iMessage that contains an image file. TIFF with malicious code is enough to steal passwords from the terminal and also all the files and pictures that are on the device’s storage memory.
The found bug is received through iMessage files are downloaded alone. To put it another way, for iOS files. TIFF are an image more, what entails precisely that is can include code malicious capable of steal your information personal sensitive as can be the data of your accounts banking or get data more accurate by engineering social.
If you have reached this point, let know you that there is a simple solution to avoid this problem and you will not cost too much, just a few minutes of your time. The solution is to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system. Should have an iPhone you should update it, minimum, to the version 9.3.3, with a Mac speak of the version the captain 10.11.16, for a Apple Watch to the WatchOS 2.2.2 and, in case of an Apple TV to a tvOS 9.2.2.
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