- A security researcher unearthed seven zero-day vulnerabilities in mobile Safari and leveraged them to hijack an iPhone camera.
- The iPhone camera hack landed the researcher a $75,000 check from Apple.
- Apple fixed the exploit via a Safari update earlier this year.
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Apple recently paid a white hat hacker $75,000 after he unearthed a number of zero-day vulnerabilities that could have allowed a malicious actor to gain access to the camera on a user’s iPhone or MacBook.
Originally brought to light via Forbes, a former Amazon security engineer named Ryan Pickren was curious about exploring and finding potential security loopholes on the iPhone.
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iPhone camera hack yields security researcher $75,000 from Apple originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 09:35:14 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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