Student who hijacked iPhone camera did the same to the Mac; Apple paid bug bounty of $100K
January 26, 2022
Apple paid a bug bounty of $100K after a cyber security student who successfully hijacked the iPhone camera back in 2019 did the same with the Mac camera.
Ryan Pickren used an imaginative approach that allowed him to run arbitrary code on a target Mac, and received what he believes to be the largest bug bounty Apple has ever paid …
Background
Pickren is a PhD student in cyber security at the…