Hacks

By just making the users visiting a link, an attacker can hack the users’ iOS/macOS Camera using zero-day bugs in Safari. With iOS and macOS camera security model every app needs to assigned permission manually but Apple’s own app such as  Safari  gets access by default. Security researcher Ryan Pickren  discovered  seven new vulnerabilities with Safari browser that allows attackers to access your device’s camera, microphone, or location, and in some cases, saved passwords as well. Pickren said that Safari not using the method of the origin to keep track of the open website, “I deduced that Safari was likely running a Generic URI Syntax parser against all open windows to get the URIs’ hostnames, then doing some extra parsing on those.” Exploiting Bugs to Access Camera He started exploiting using javascript: data: and about, but that fails, but while parsing file: which specified for remote or FTP purpose( file://host.example.com/Share/path/to/file.txt ). Safari parses