Blackhat newsflash: Researchers showed that an iPhone SMS virus infection is possible at Blackhat
July 30th, 2009
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Charlies Miller’s and Collin Mulliners talk “Fuzzing the Phone in your Phone” today revealed full details that could make the first iPhone virus infection at the Blackhat security conference in Las Vegas.
Large SMS messages are cut up in smaller SMS messages, this means that the SMS messages need to be parsed by the phone to put it back together and thus can be used as an attack vector to breach the phone. By using a technique known as fuzzing, Miller and Mulliner where able to find exploitable conditions that could be turned into an attack and an iPhone virus. The attack takes a total of 519 SMS messages, but will work without any user interaction.