Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones · HackerPapers discussions

Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones — mentioned by aspenmayer

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:38:18 GMT

Leave your phone at home. You won't need it if you plan to not have it. A simple device like this can even keep it company for you while you're away: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourne-montre Print this out and you can take notes on the back of the page, or even read it if you get bored while you're out and about without your device, to remind yourself why you don't really need your phone: > Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones > Jiska Classen, Alexander Heinrich, Robert Reith, Matthias Hollick https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114 |…

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Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones — mentioned by PeterisP

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:18:36 GMT

And the quite capable computers that do things like being controllers for your hard drive, or wifi or other devices on your "computer" ? A relevant example is this article "Evil never sleeps" https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114 about the ability of those "secondary computers" to function without the cooperation of the primary computer, in this case the iPhone where they even work (sometimes maliciously) while the main device is "turned off".

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Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones — mentioned by lxgr

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:12:44 GMT

> “As far as we know, the only thing that definitely stops Bluetooth beacons is turning off your phone,” Bhaskar said. At least for recent Apple devices, that's not true anymore (intentionally, as it is used to support "Find my iPhone" even with a dead battery or on a phone that's been switched off): https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114

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Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones — mentioned by kornhole

Fri, 13 May 2022 13:48:54 GMT

And this just posted to HN today to explain in detail for you how the Iphone stays on and transmitting when you think it is off. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114v1

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Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones — HN submission

Fri, 13 May 2022 08:39:19 GMT

When Wireless Malware Stays on After Turning Off iPhones [pdf]

36 points; 5 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.