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Apple chips are great at both performance and power efficiency, but a new report hints that the tech giant’s in-house developed chips have two security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to get access to sensitive data like location, emails and even credit card information while using apps like iCloud Calendar, Gmail, and Google Maps.
According to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum, these security flaws affect Apple’s A- and M- series chips, which power Macs, iPhones and iPads.
The researchers also showed a proof-of-concept and said hackers can steal sensitive information by using”a class of exploits that infers secrets by measuring manifestations such as timing, sound and power consumption.”
Here’s a list of devices that are vulnerable to the aforementioned attacks.
It looks like old devices powered by the M1 chipset or those still rocking Intel processors are not vulnerable to the attack.
At the moment, it is still unclear if any threat actors have used the vulnerabilities to steal any information, but researchers say that they have shared the information with Apple to help the company close the loopholes. And while Apple has publicly said that these security flaws do not pose any “immediate risk” to users, it looks like the tech giant has allegedly told researchers that they plan to fix these vulnerabilities soon.
