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Comment by I_Am_Nous

2 years ago

>Although infections didn’t survive a reboot

Reminder to reboot your iPhone at least weekly if you are concerned about this kind of attack.

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x1sec  2 years ago

In a week, a lot of data can be exfiltrated. Then after you have rebooted, the threat actor reinfects your device.

Frequently rebooting the device can’t hurt but it likely isn’t going to prevent a threat actor from achieving their objectives.

The best mitigation we have is to enable lockdown mode.

transpute  2 years ago

> reboot your iPhone at least weekly

with the Hard Reset key sequence, https://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Reset-an-iPhone

  • wyre  2 years ago

    Sorry for the lay question but what’s the benefit of the hard reset over a general restart?

    • Mattwmaster58  2 years ago

      Layperson here so just guessing. If not using the hard reset method, the exploit might fake the reboot sequence to maintain its own persistence. AFAIK, a hard reset is built in hardware and thus impossible to fake.

    • carleton  2 years ago

      I believe they’re assuming that malware can do a pretend reboot whereas the hardware keystroke can’t be faked.