New iOS security vulnerabilities exposed could force you to connect to malicious Wi-Fi networks

Security experts have recently identified another potential threat in iOS. When connecting to a malicious Wi-Fi network, your iPhone or iPad may become bricks.

Although users are now more alert to malicious Wi-Fi networks, attackers can use the automatic reconnection feature in iOS to unwittingly connect your phone to their own malicious Wi-Fi network.

We all know that iPhone records a Wi-Fi network after it is connected, so that the next time it comes within the scope of that network, it will automatically reconnect. This is an excellent opportunity in the eyes of attackers, because they only need to forge the same network to deceive the device to connect to it. In this way, he can monitor, modify, and redirect all network traffic on the device.

After connecting to a malicious Wi-Fi network, an attacker can set the date in the iOS device to January 1, 1970, thereby turning it into a brick. Of course, if your device has been upgraded to iOS 9.3.1, you won't be affected by this problem, because Apple has fixed it in this upgrade. But before Apple fixes this malicious Wi-Fi vulnerability, attackers will come up with other malicious attacks.