China Declares Apple AirDrop Compromised
Meanwhile in China
A Chinese government forensic institute claims to have identified anonymous senders using Apple’s AirDrop feature by successfully cracking it.
The Beijing Municipal Justice Bureau Office reports in a website post that the agency instituted security crackdowns on AirDrop after some individuals received ‘inappropriate’ video via AirDrop while riding the Beijing subway.
Reportedly, forensic specialists cracked hashed values of the sender’s email address, mobile phone number, and device name using a “rainbow table.”
The following is an automated translation of the report:…
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An in-depth analysis of the iPhone device files by forensic technical experts from the Beijing Wangshendongjian Forensic Appraisal Institute revealed AirDrop-related records and clarified the transmission principle.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that certain elements associated with the hash value were concealed while others pertaining to the sender’s device name, email address, and mobile phone number were encoded as hash values.
The technical team devised a comprehensive “rainbow table” comprising email addresses and mobile phone numbers as a means to decipher this field swiftly.
