New mystery apps in iPhone cellular data

BlackBlotter wrote:

I have a sneaky sneaky suspicion that ckuan is attempting to throw us off the scent.

WHO DO YOU WORK FOR?

NSA? NRO?

MYOB.

SpringBoard is a monitoring system for government Cyber security Agencies and hashtagsimages are monitoring cellular phone data calls for the same agencies. So now you know, do what you will with the information. I don’t know why but it seems a bit like big brother attitude. Good luck.

Eugene.kiev wrote:

I have "SpringBoard" on iOS 11.0.3 (iPhone SE). Periodically, a download icon appears next to the operator's name on the home screen. Disappears only after reboot.

As has been explained by people without paranoia issues,"Springboard" is the part of iOS that controls things like the Home Screen.

Springboard is an operating system that you should not see. Only if uounjailbreak your phone then you should be able to see the actually springboard application. I have put 5 calls into Apple and had a supervisor not know what it is. Now I haven’t heard a thing back from anywhere me in two days and I have called extension numbers all over that **** place. SB is right it’s a government servalliance to look like part of the operating system, but they screwed up. And now people are finding it on their phones.

Evebow28 wrote:

I am currently on IOS 11.0.3 and I am having the exact same thing please help I am worried.

I was only kidding. It has nothing to do with Lee Harvey Oswald!

Ignore it. It's part of the Apple System. Don't turn off Cellular access. No one here (including me) knows what the impact of that will be.

I, too, have been questioning the legitimacy of SpringBoard and HashtagImages.

The latter because it appears, as mentioned, in my cellular data usage. And the former because it is frequently included in crash reports and other analytics documents provided (as part of the developer analytics sharing function) by all 3 of my iOS devices - AppleTV 4th gen, iPhone 8+, and iPad Air 2.

I would say I see it on my Mac also, but the amount of unknown programming that infests that machine has rendered it unusable for the moment. (I power on, it has kernel panic before reaching the log in screen, and reboots before repeating the same actions repeatedly until the machine is power down.)

I have reset and reloaded and restarted as backups, by setting up as new device, changing my AppleID, everything. There seems to be no escape from the programming that has been seemingly attached to my electronic existence.

I know for a fact my devices have been accessible both physically and via WiFi to a few known independent “hackers”, including my soon-to-be ex-roommate and an ex business partner with an obsessive nature.

For HastagImages, I believe I have only seen it listed on the cellular data page. But for SpringBoard, I’ve seen the listing in a majority of my analytics docs. Listed along with apps/code readily found on open source forums such as GitHub all geared toward screen sharing, logging, viewing photos and video files, copying photos and video files, captive networking, and editing plist files. I am sure the application is valid and part of legitimate iOS core structure, but I also think it’s being manipulated to create opportunities to mislead users into staying ignorant to the corruption on their technology.

What is happening to my phone seems alarmingly similar to what has only recently been uncovered as opportunity for exploitation in the iOS operating system. I.e. exploiting Bluetooth/WiFi weaknesses that allow programming in at the startup stage so its one step ahead of any built in security check points iOS provides.

For example, I just read an article about a situation in iOS where startup begins and setup/home screens (SpringBoard?) remain open while a security pop up blocks further usage without verification. But that verification screen can be manipulated to disappear, allowing access to the normally-functioning device underneath. Why could a similar function not be used to create a “fake” prompt asking for your AppleID and password? Or any other information an unknowing user would promptly provide, assuming their phones were on their side and only trying to protect them?

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, though it sounds exciting. I’m simply a guy who trusted the wrong people and has observed and experienced unwanted occurrences on all of my devices. Including personalized audio messages “spoken” from my computer to me as I’m working in Photoshop; my contacts repeatedly scanned and syncing with an “outside observer”; emails going to my archive before I’ve seen them arrive; text messages and google voice messages disappaearing; seeing command line commands in Terminal history that I did not author (including personal video files being copied and sent to outside IP addresses); fake websites with personalized messages (literally: “someone may have edited the photos on this site to trick you”) appearing when you click the “i” in Safari’s address bar (that typically indicates if a website is insecure); some quantity of “conditional call forwarding” being applied to my phone number; calls being monitored and numbers being pressed to create audio interference as I tried to talk to customer service; unauthorized bank transfers to accounts whose websites were suddenly Spanish when I attempted to flag the transactions as fraud; and more. It’s been a blast.

If you can help... or want to know more... please email me @icloud.

Just know that you’re not the only one seeing these breaches and receiving no full explanation or assistance to stop/remove them. I have no IT training, just an uncanny attention to detail and an unrelenting stubborn nature. Good luck.