In a recent conference with Skycure for the RSA in San Francisco, researchers Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani shared a potentially dangerous hacking scheme for the new iOS 8 which involves Wi-Fi services.

The security breach will cause an infinite loop of reboot which can be experienced by iPads and iPhones. According to Amit and Sharabani, this hack becomes effective via manipulated SSL certificates sent to a device through a Wi-Fi network. This attack, dubbed as "WiFigate," enables hackers to have unlimited Wi-Fi service and will "force any device to automatically connect to it" like a magnet.

"Envision a small device, which automatically captures any iOS device in range and gets it to join a fake network. Then, it issues the attack and crashes attacked iOS devices again and again. Victims in range cannot do anything about it. Think about the impact of launching such an attack on Wall Street, or maybe at the world's busiest airports, or at large utility plants. The results would be catastrophic."

This results in what attackers call as "No iOS zone". Skycure is the only company who have tested this flaw on the new operating system. However, they disclaimed that the company "has not confirmed this as fully fixed yet, we've decided to refrain from providing additional technical details."

Furthermore, Sharabani has also let it slip that the resolution may be close by as Apple will be launch the iOS 8.4 in May of this year. That would fix the potential risk users may have for their Apple devices especially the upcoming releases. Another resolution is to simply turn off your Wi-Fi when it is not needed.