{"id":35503,"date":"2021-01-28T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35503"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:36:11","slug":"bug-in-apple-devices-could-grant-access-to-bitcoin-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bug-in-apple-devices-could-grant-access-to-bitcoin-wallets\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug in Apple devices could grant access to Bitcoin wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vulnerability in Apple devices allows remote access to them. It potentially threatens cryptocurrency wallet users.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple has already released updates for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT212146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are available for models starting with the iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, and the seventh-generation iPod touch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pete Kim, Coinbase&#8217;s chief engineer, urged Apple users to urgently update the operating system to protect their cryptocurrency wallets.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26a0\ufe0f If you are using a mobile crypto wallet on an iOS device, be sure to update iOS as soon as possible! The update includes a fix for a remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability that may have been actively exploited.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qyK9eygST4\">https:\/\/t.co\/qyK9eygST4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pete Kim \u27e0 (@petejkim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petejkim\/status\/1354196198530273282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his words, there is no evidence that the vulnerabilities could have been exploited to target cryptocurrency users specifically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, researchers identified a bug in iOS in March that allowed information to be stolen, including personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability in Apple devices allows remote access. It potentially threatens cryptocurrency wallet users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1112,1301],"class_list":["post-35503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-apple","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35505,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503\/revisions\/35505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}