iPhone hacked with iMessage

No no no, this was remotely accessed. As it was trying to go into all my financial apps and look up my credit cards. I would be seriously surprised if this was just random glitch. And no my phone was not plugged in at all, I was using wireless recharge.

It also continued after I picked it up and moved away to a different room. It was accessing stuff a hacker would go into. It was scrolling the screen like a person, and selecting stuff as if a person was doing it.

Maybe you can explain this ghost touch more, but I am almost sure that it was not that. Also I know scammers, the only reason I responded is because my GF lost her phone recently and kinda expecting unknown numbers to call about it.

Apple has admitted to "fixing" 2 zero day exploits that allow code to be run on the phone from a Imessage. However the newest update is suppose to fix that.

https://www.opengrowth.com/resources/apple-cyber-flaw-allows-hack-iphone-via-imessage

This is the older exploit, so to act like its impossible is ignoring facts.

https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/ios-17-4-update-warning/

Meanwhile, the iOS 17.4 upgrade also includes an update to iMessage that improves iPhone security and privacy.

Apple has issued iOS 17.4,

along with a warning to update now. That’s because iOS 17.4 fixes at

least four security issues, two of which are already being used in

real-life attacks.

Again, Apple said it “is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited.”

Exploiting the two issues could lead to compromising the entire

device, says Sean Wright, head of application security at Featurespace.

And no mine is not the only one, there are many people reporting this lately. Why do you think they had a emergency security update, and strongly recommends you update to it.

Also I thought you said it needs to be plugged in for it to ghost touch, which it was not. My phone works fine with airplane mode on, when I turn it off a few minutes later it starts opening stuff on its own and only financial stuff. Odd how it picks them... a reboot and with airplane mode on it works fine. So clearly something more is going on here.

Factory reset and everything is working correctly. Don't think it was a digitizer going bad as the screen is flawless. Something serious happened here, I hope Apple will release some information that might shed some light on this issue.

Can you show me any examples of ghost touch doing what I am describing? Its a newer phone, and like I said, if I turn on internet connection in a few mins my phone gets hijacked. If I keep it off it works fine for hours. Does that sound like ghost touch?

See the thing is my phone works completely fine with out internet access. Not a single problem. I have looked at examples of ghost touch and it was not what happened with my phone, that looks very random.

The phone scrolled over 2 pages, opened my wallet, opened my credit card and selected something that required a passcode. It exited that pass code screen, closed my wallet, scrolled back 2 screens, opened app store, went to payment options and tried to do something that required a pass code...

once again, it closed that, went back to main screen, scrolled over a page and opened my text messages. It than began to select multiple peoples chats and that was when I forced a shutdown.

If this was just random ghost touch, I am impressed it did exactly what a hacker would be looking for. The way it was scrolling, the way it was selecting items on the screen, it was not random. I also had ZERO control over the device while all this was happening. I could not pull the screen down, I could not select anything, I could not do any touch commands.

After the shutdown everything has worked 100% fine for a hour or 2. I rejoined my internet router and within 2-3 mins my phone starts going into my wallet again and opening my payment information. I can't believe this is random digitizer glitch. it looked like someone using the device.

Already working on restoring...nope screen is scratch free, is almost brand new. I work in IT, so I know the difference between remotely controlling a device vs random glitch from a bad screen. I am 99% sure my phone has malware or something that is infecting it to gain access.

Guess we will see when apple releases what the exploits are after they have given time to people to update.

Mac Jim ID wrote:

I assume you do not have a screen protector and battery condition also plays a role, but I assume your battery health is greater than 80%.

Yes I have a Otterbox, worth every penny. The screen is in mint condition, almost zero scratches, and my battery life is at 98%. I have had zero issues after factory resetting my phone. So it is clearly not the screen going bad.

I was possibly hit with this New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days. For the people saying Imessage is secure, I am 99% sure that is how I got hit. I received a text, and responded to it and than within 1 min my phone was remotely controlled.

Factory reset seems to have fixed it, no unresponsive screen while it goes into my wallets and app store anymore. I would be very surprised if it did that randomly from a bad screen, it looked as if it was being controlled with a person scrolling and selecting things, no randomness at all.

Thanks everyone for the help, I appreciate the input and back and forth.

I was on a previous IOS version when I got hacked, I just recently updated to newest version after my phone got hijacked.

My point was there are hacks out there that can target you with zero click Imessages. People were saying it not possible cause Apple...

My information was leaked in the Ledger breach so I am a known target for crypto hackers. I see emails all the time that are phishing.

Its not hard for me to believe there is more exploits out in the wild that are unknown or not patched yet and maybe much easier to use. The message that started my problem was from China go figure.

My phone was remotely accessed, they attempted to access my wallets and financial information. It started right after I responded to a Imessage. Believe what you want, but the timing points to a Imessage exploit, considering I don't use my phone for anything besides calls, texts and Amazon purchases.