Apple Vision Pro continues its journey. After launching this summer in more countries, including some in Europe as close as France, the number of users continues to grow, slowly but surely. And that’s it Building an ecosystem and a good user base takes time. Just like what happened with the iPhone, the Apple Watch, the AirPods… It’ll be a few years from now when we’ll really start seeing more people with Apple Vision Pro in their daily lives.
On the other hand, there are already thousands of users around the world who enjoy this space computer every day. In fact, Apple has released the visionOS 2 update with iOS 18, with long-awaited new features such as better window control and the home screen. However, Hackers discovered a security bug which Apple has not yet addressed and affects direct password theft.
Eye movement could reveal your passwords
I myself had the opportunity to test the Apple Vision Pro for a few days, as well as the way to move around in the interface. It’s really futuristic. There is no need to press keys on a keyboard anymore; just by looking at the letters and numbers, you select them. This is the one that most closely resemblesto control something with the mind. It sounds very sci-fi, but I promise you that’s how it is.
It is precisely this eye tracking technology that some hackers are taking advantage of to steal confidential dataThe vulnerability is called GAZEploit and was discovered by researchers from the University of Florida, CertiK Skyfall Team, and Texas Tech University.
GAZEploit Keyboard Estimate on Apple Vision Pro
GAZEploit benefits from movements of our eyes during a video call to guess what we are typing on the keyboard. The researchers obtained a 98% accuracy in identifying pressed keys.
GAZEploit process in Apple Vision Pro
This attack can be carried out remotely and allows the extraction of sensitive information such as passwords and private messages without the user’s knowledge during virtual meetings, video calls or live broadcasts. In the following video you can see in detail how GAZEploit works.
How Apple Vision Pro users can protect themselves
Apple continually releases software updates that help fix these and other vulnerabilities. Also, being a study from an American university, surely They are already aware of the GAZEploit problem. Even so, being something so integrated into the system and tied to basic features like typing, it will take some time to fix, since eye tracking is required for typing. One option could be to use artificial intelligence to prevent eyes from moving during a video call when the keyboard is active.
Until this future update, the only thing to do is to avoid writing compromised data during meetings or video calls via the virtual keyboard. The Apple Vision Pro can be Connect a Bluetooth keyboard like the Magic Keyboard to your Mac. This option would be secure as long as it does not focus on keys, because this way we would also share our password.
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