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Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges


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The authors extend their gratitude to the anonymous reviewers and shepherd for their invaluable feedback and suggestions. Apple recently released patches in iOS 18.2, visionOS 2.2, iPadOS 17.7.3, 18.2, watchOS 11.2, tvOS 18.2, macOS Ventura 13.7.2, Sonoma 14.7.2, Sequoia 15.2 to fix the vulnerability. However, the attack remains effective as long as unpatched iPhones or Apple Watches are in the proximity of the computer running our trojan.

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