More than 86% of the world’s iPhones can still be hacked with just a text
More than 86% of Apple iPhones in the world are apparently still vulnerable to a security flaw that allows a hacker to completely take over the device with just a text message, according to data from mobile and web analytics firm MixPanel.
A surprising number of people have not yet updated the iPhone’s mobile operating system — despite an urgent warning to do so coming from Apple last week — in light of a major security problem the company was forced to correct in iOS 9.3.5.
According to MixPanel’s report, which relies on partners sharing the version of iOS people are using to download their apps, only about 11% of users have updated to the latest version of iOS, while about 2% of people are on the beta version of iOS 10, which is also protected from the security issue. That means more than 86% of iOS users are still vulnerable to a malicious tool called “Pegasus,” an impossible-to-detect software that can hack an iPhone using nothing more than a text message.
