Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses
- ID
- 11510
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 06 Aug 2026, 7:33 PM
- Fetched
- 06 Aug 2026, 8:39 PM
- Provider
- The Hacker News
- Category
- security
- Original URL
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/webkit-proxy-bypasses-can-expose-real.html
- Source URL
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
Excerpt
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users' privacy by routing their Safari web traffic through two relays so that no single third-party, including Apple, can determine where the request is originating from
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