Earlier this year, there was a vulnerability that hacking groups were using to crack into Apple devices. They could send an iMessage to an iPhone, it didn’t have to say anything in the message, but there was a zip file in it. When zip files are being texted to you via iMessage, the way Apple devices process them is by scanning it to see what the contents are before the owner opens it, so it can be displayed. What Apple didn’t know at the time, was that when the scan happened, there was a script within that would tell the phone to give them permission or access or to run another program that would leave your whole phone open to the hackers who sent it. They could access your camera, your photos, your microphone, see what apps you’re running, etc. This was used quite a bit for tracking people and left a lot of people extremely vulnerable. Eventually, through enough people having this problem, Apple was notified and they released a patch (an update) to fix the issue.
