Flipper Zero gadget that DoSes iPhones takes onceesoteric attacks mainstream | Makemetechie.com Summary

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  • Security researcher Jeroen van der Ham was traveling by train in the Netherlands when his iPhone suddenly displayed a series of pop up windows that made it nearly impossible to use his device.
  • The same debilitating stream of pop ups hit again on the afternoon commute home not just against his iPhone but the iPhones of other passengers in the same train car.
  • One of the same passengers nearby had also been present that morning and fingered the passenger as the culprit.
  • The culprit it turned out was using a Flipper Zero device to send Bluetooth pairing requests to all iPhones within radio range.
Enlarge/ A fully updated iPhone (left) after being force crashed by a Flipper Zero (right).0 with One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham was traveling by train in the N [+4336 chars]

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