Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack

ronjor · Sep 28, 2021

The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with a mobile phone and discover its owner’s phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused to redirect the Good Samaritan to an iCloud phishing page — or to any other malicious website.
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ronjor · Feb 10, 2022

Apple tackling AirTag stalking concerns with these changes to Find My network

Chance Miller - Feb. 10th 2022
In response to growing concerns about AirTag and the Find My network being used for unwanted tracking and stalking, Apple has announced a handful of changes coming over the course of this year. The company reaffirms that AirTag “was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people,” and these forthcoming changes aim to make that clear.
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