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iPhone Brute Force Hack: Researcher Finds How To Bypass iPhone’s Passcode Limit

Over the past years, Apple has been playing cat and mouse with security researchers and hackers who keep trying to develop new ways to bypass the iPhone security. Earlier this year, a new challenge came up in the form of an iPhone unlocking device named GrayKey being used by law enforcement agencies.The most recent challenge to iOS security has been posed by a security researcher named Matthew Hickey, who has found a way to bypass the 10-time passcode limit.For those who do not know, the iPhones we use have a limited number of unsuccessful attempts that one can make before Apple's implementation implementation wipes the device and deletes the data forever. This is the primary measure that irritates the notorious elements and police the most while extracting the data out of a phone.The recent attack is able to bypass the limit even on the iPhones running the recent iOS versions. "An attacker just needs to turned on, locked phone and a lightning cable," Hickey told ZDNet.He has also posted a demo video online with the attack being carried out. More precise details of the attack have been shared with Apple and we should expect this issue getting patched in upcoming iOS 12 release. It's also unknown if the GrayKey makes use of a similar technique to unlock the iPhone.

Adarsh Verma