That's because they're not allowed installing themselves, we have to inject them ourselves. It's not dissimilar to Phishing attacks or web popups on Windows or Mac PCs that claim account problems or promise free movies, porn, gadgets, or other scare tactics/enticements to get us to click/tap and install them on our systems. To be clear, like any human engineering attack we - the user - has to install the malicious profile. To be perfectly clear, this is not a vulnerability within iOS, instead it uses standardized frameworks to deliver a profile that has malicious intent. Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web went through a demo:Īfter the profile was installed, demonstrated to me that he could not only read exactly which websites I was visiting, but also scrape keystrokes, searches and login data from apps like Facebook and LinkedIn. A few concrete impact examples include: stealing one’s Facebook, LinkedIn, mail and even bank identities and acting on his/her behalf in these account, potentially creating havoc. Also available on Xbox and PlayStation.Weird West more than lives up to its name in all the right ways.

This makes it possible to seamlessly intercept and decrypt SSL/TLS secure connections, on which most applications rely to transfer sensitive data. Weird West reviewed on PC by Dan Stapleton.

In addition to being able to route all of the victim’s traffic through the attacker’s server, a more interesting and hazardous characteristic of malicious profiles is the ability to install root certificates on victims’ devices. A malicious profile could be used to remote control mobile devices, monitor and manipulate user activity and hijack user sessions.

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