Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 17, 2019)
Summary: Cisco Talos reported a malicious site that advertises an iOS jailbreaking tool but instead performs click fraud and installs a malicious profile on the user's device, capitalizing on an unpatchable jailbreak exploit that researchers are racing to release tools for. Adobe also released its third patch for an Acrobat Reader vulnerability Talos discovered earlier in the year that could let an attacker execute arbitrary code on a victim machine.
Key Takeaway: A jailbreak that Apple cannot patch out is drawing both researchers and attackers to the same audience, and the malicious version of that tool delivers a profile to the device rather than a jailbreak - a reminder that demand for unpatchable exploits creates a ready-made lure.
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