A critical FaceTime Bug allows you to call anyone with Facetime and start to hear the audio from the recipient phone before they answer or reject the incoming call.
The bug poses a serious privacy issue, that allows anyone to secretly listen to your conversation without user consent.
Facetime developed by Apple Inc and the app supported iOS mobile devices and Macintosh computers that run Mac OS X 10.6.6 and later.
The vulnerability can be abused by anyone to trigger an audio call and if the person pressed power down button from their iOS lock screen, then they will start broadcasting both the audio an video.
9to5Mac reported the FaceTime bug and they are able to reproduce the bug with an iPhone X calling an iPhone XR and the bug likely to affect all the iOS devices running 12.1 or later.
The bug has been reported to Apple, and the Apple to address the issue with the software update later this week.
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