Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones

Kyle Barr
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Boxes of Flipper Zeros on plastic pallets getting ready to ship.
Boxes of Flipper Zeros on plastic pallets getting ready to ship.


The Flipper Zero is billed as a fun tool for tech enthusiasts, but it has also been used to perpetrate annoying and more serious attacks on various devices.

Apple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users’ phones requiring a restart.

Flipper Zero is a small multi-tool able to mimic NFC, RFID, or other radio signals. Billed as a toy-like device for “pentesters and geeks,” the device has come under fire for being an easy-to-use tool for hackers or other ne’er-do-wells.

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The latest iOS update added a number of handy features like the Journal app, but as usual, Apple doesn’t expand on all its security fixes in its release notes. Notably, iOS 17.3 is supposed to add a heap of anti-theft features, but we’ll need to wait and see whether Apple or any other device maker can put a stop to these annoying Bluetooth messages altogether.

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