Last month, cybersecurity research firm Paradigm Shift published details of a boot ROM vulnerability affecting Apple’s A12 and A13 chips, but it has since removed the blog post after being sued by digital forensics firm Magnet Forensics.
In a complaint filed this month in Georgia federal court, Magnet Forensics alleged that the security vulnerability disclosed by Paradigm Shift was substantially the same one that its former employee Mario Del Gaudio worked on before joining Paradigm Shift. As a result, Magnet Forensics alleged that Del Gaudio exposed its trade secrets.
Apple’s A12 and A13 chips power the iPhone XS and iPhone 11 series, as well as some other devices. A boot ROM vulnerability cannot be fixed with an iOS update because it involves code permanently embedded in the chip’s read-only memory.
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