OneKey Founder Urges iPhone 11 and Earlier Users to Migrate Seed Phrases

OneKey founder Yishi urged users to move seed phrases stored on iPhone 11 and earlier models, saying iOS updates cannot fix the devices’ chip-level vulnerabilities. According to PANews, Yishi said on November 1 that erasing an older iPhone, enabling airplane mode and using it only to store a seed phrase may not be as safe as many people assume.The affected models include the iPhone XS, XR and 11 series, as well as the second-generation iPhone SE. They have BootROM hardware vulnerabilities, including checkm8 and usbliter8, that cannot be fixed through software updates. An attacker with physical access could connect a specially designed USB device through DFU mode and execute code before the operating system starts.