Virtually every electronic device is capable of being hacked, including Apple’s. To that point, Trail of Bits recently discovered a new attack through a GPU security flaw. Even though it seems Apple has addressed this issue in some iPhone and MacBook models, iPhone 12 and M2 MacBook Air owners are still unprotected against this security flaw.
The security researchers at Trail of Bits discovered the LeftoverLocals vulnerability in the graphic processor units made by Apple, Qualcomm, and others. With this exploit, an attacker with local access to your iPhone 12 or M2 MacBook Air could read data in the GPU. In the article, they say they were able to read the results of an AI chatbot query.
