{"id":6706,"date":"2020-04-24T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2529567"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:14:00","slug":"apple-downplays-ios-mail-app-security-flaw-says-no-evidence-of-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/apple-downplays-ios-mail-app-security-flaw-says-no-evidence-of-exploits\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple downplays iOS Mail app security flaw, says \u2018no evidence\u2019 of exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

Apple has found no evidence that recently discovered security flaws in the native iOS Mail app were exploited by hackers, the company said in a statement. “We have found no evidence they were used against customers,” the company said. It also cast doubt on whether the issues, which it admitted were present on both the iPhone and the iPad versions of its Mail app, were enough to bypass the two devices’ security protections.<\/p>\n

Apple’s response directly contradicts the claims of security researchers at ZecOps, who said that they’d found evidence of the exploit being used against at least six high-profile targets. The flaws allowed a hacker to infect a device simply by sending it a specially-crafted email and for the victim to open it. At the time ZecOps said it had “high confidence” that the vulnerabilities had been exploited in the wild by “advanced threat operator(s).”<\/p>\n

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