A group of security researchers have discovered an alarming vulnerability in Apple’s mobile and desktop operating systems.
A research group has explained how it tested a series of attacks that were able to bypass security checks, steal passwords, and even critical app data. The vulnerability was discovered to exist in Apple devices including the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers.
Due to the way Apple built apps to communicate with each other, the paper writes, researchers were able to “steal such confidential information as the passwords for iCloud, email and bank, and the secret token of Evernote.”