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Critical vulnerabilities left millions of Apple devices at the mercy of hackers – and nobody noticed for nearly a decade


Apple devices could've been susceptible to supply chain attacks after three critical vulnerabilities went unnoticed for nearly a decade

Virtually every single Apple device on earth was exposed to a number of critical vulnerabilities through the dependency manager CocoaPods, new research has revealed. EVA Information Security revealed it found several vulnerabilities in CocoaPods that could allow an attacker to claim ownership of potentially thousands of unclaimed pods and execute arbitrary code on the service’s trunk server. These pods could be injected with malicious code and used in supply chain attacks that could compromise potentially millions of iOS and MacOS devices around the world, EVA team warned.

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