Apple iPhone be at risk as hackers can attack mail app

The email app on Apple iPhone may be at its Achilles heel against hackers and vulnerable to malware attacks, as per a report by the The Wall Street Journal. The report is based upon the claims of cybersecurity firm ZecOps that says that hackers have found a flaw in mail on Apple iPhone. And the iPhone can be hacked without you having to tap on a link or downloading any file, essentially a "malware without input", claims ZecOps.

To make such a surreptitious attack possible, hackers could send in a "malware without input", a breach which would be "virtually undetectable ". This malware would be in the form of a "specially designed message", claim researchers. What is more alarming that hackers could have been exploiting  the flaw for quite some time now, the time being claimed to "at least two yeas". There have been reportedly "at least six targets" till now and they have been mentioned in the report. They include "staff at a Japanese telecom", a "large North American firm", a European journalist, a German and tech companies in Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The cybersecurity firm says it couldn't get its hands on the malware in iOS as message had already been deleted. The company got to know about the hack, through hints in iOS.

In other news, Apple may unveil a new 23-inch iMac, along with an 11-inch iPad Air  model in the second half of the year.