Q: iOS wifi spoofer issue on SIM?
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Oct 20, 2016 10:04 AMby ChrisJ4203,Well, it is difficult to believe that it is a virus on the iPhone since there is no virus that can attach itself to the phone unless it is jailbroken. I can tell you that it cannot be the SIM either, since the iPhone does not write anything at all to the SIM. While it is very possible that you could have gotten some malware from a hotel wi-fi, you cannot install anything on the iPhone unless it is jailbroken. If the issue continued after arriving home, then I would check your router to see if something happened there. While a restore of the phone should have cleared your Safari history and website data, that is something you can check in Settings to clear if you restored your phone to a backup. Also check to see if the wi-fi that you used installed a profile on your phone. That would be located in Settings>General>Profiles.
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Oct 20, 2016 10:15 AMby Jamwxman,I Think you are wrong. iPhone writes/reads to the SIM for backup. all I care about is that the issue
is fixed. These are 3 virgin devices.. never messed with. The one iOS device not taken on the trip
does not have the symptom. The only thing that fixes it is running the phone without
the SIM. Sounds like it is the SIM to me. It will be easy for apple to find out by looking
on the SIM for roague code.
I have been all over everything else modem, router, network. This is how the
chinese are hacking into stuff ( just a wild guess )
i only posted here to help others with this issue
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Oct 20, 2016 10:19 AMby ChrisJ4203,Jamwxman wrote:
I Think you are wrong. iPhone writes/reads to the SIM for backup.
I'm sorry, but the iPhone does not read/write anything to the SIM, especially for backups. Backups are done either in iCloud or iTunes, never to the SIM. The SIM only hold information about your cellular account for your carrier.
If you are no interested in anything else that you described, then we are done.
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Oct 20, 2016 10:35 AMby Jamwxman,It might be something that relies on the device having a cellular connection. Although the
ipad that has it is not connected to cell while it is on the wifi. I'll mess with that iPad some
to see. I'm no expert and don't really know what goes on with the SIM... just discussing
this issue. It is very odd.
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Oct 20, 2016 10:44 AMby Jamwxman,This is a real issue. iOS is not immune to dos attck hacks. iOS 8 had a known issue that allowed it I believe.
I Apologize for offending anyone's knowledge. I have been with apple for a few days and they think it is not
iphone. Netgear people say it is not the router. I just want to fix it.
I will get a new SIM and see what happens
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Oct 20, 2016 11:42 AMby Jamwxman,It is maybe not the SIM but the cell connection.
I don't see the attack when the SIM card is in
Wifi is on and cell data is OFF but when cell and wifi are on it happens.
what does this mean? This is totally weird.
has to be cell data or something on the SIM
IPhone has to read the SIM to make the cell connection.
Headed to att store to get new SIM
if anyone wants to see the router logs let me know.
the phone ip doesn't change on the phone but it
does in the ip line in attached devices for the iPhone
on the router and in the logs
the mac is the iPhone mac in the router table
if it was the router why would it care if there was cell connection?
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Oct 20, 2016 11:59 AMby Michael Black,Jamwxman wrote:
This is a real issue. iOS is not immune to dos attck hacks. iOS 8 had a known issue that allowed it I believe.
I Apologize for offending anyone's knowledge. I have been with apple for a few days and they think it is not
iphone. Netgear people say it is not the router. I just want to fix it.
I will get a new SIM and see what happens
iOS 8 had a known vulnerability where a nearby router could case the iOS device to reboot in response to a DoS attack from the infected router. The infection was on the router, not the iOS device. And the vulnerabilities that allowed an infected router to cause the iOS device wifi crashes were patched in iOS over a year ago now.
You still have not actually described what you are experiencing. If your iOS device is crashing when connected to wifi, then it is the wifi source or an internet source that is launching the attacks, not your phone. If your phone is running an older version of iOS, then update to the latest. I would also clear your safari history and cookies and any other browsers you use as you may simply have a cookie cached that links to the attacking site every time you use it.
