Apple has no doubt continued to further harden the securities of the iPhone and iPad with iOS & iPadOS 18 – the new firmware update that will launch for iPhones and iPads this Fall, and that can already be installed as a developer beta on eligible devices.
As many stock iPhone and iPad users know, Home Screen app icons are typically static images. A couple of exceptions do exist, such as the Calendar app that updates each day with the correct date and the Clock app that updates every second with a live analog clock.
Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) arrived in Singapore on Thursday, May 23rd to participate in GeekCon 2024 International, which hosts a crowd of some of the most prominent hackers and security experts in the world.
If you’ve been following along during the past couple of days, especially following the release of iOS & iPadOS 17.5, then you’ve likely heard about the new PoC for a kernel vulnerability in AppleAVD impacting iOS & iPadOS 17.4.1 and older called CVE-2024-27804, which Apple cited as having the potential impact for an app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Just yesterday, following Apple’s release of iOS & iPadOS 17.5, security researcher Meysam Firouzi (@RootkitSMM) took to X (formerly Twitter) and said that they planned to publish a proof of concept (PoC) for a kernel vulnerability impacting iOS & iPadOS 17.4.1 and older dubbed CVE-2024-27804.
Apple on Monday released iOS & iPadOS 17.5, with a substantial part of that update incorporating a handful of security patches. At the very top of Apple’s “About the security content of iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5” web page is CVE-2024-27804, a peculiar kernel vulnerability in AppleAVD which had the potential impact of an app being able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
As promised back in February, Dopamine and TrollStore lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) took the stage at Zer0con 2024, a high-level and closed conference about software security, to discuss a technical deep dive about jailbreaking iOS 16.
Although iOS 17.4.1 doesn't introduce any new features, you're recommended to install it to get Apple's latest security patches protecting against threats.
Some time ago, iOS developer and unc0ver jailbreak lead developer pwn20wnd released an app in the App Store called Unveil that could display device information and check for software modifications on said device.
Lots of people who hold iPhone jailbreaking near and dear to their hearts remember the sinking feeling they felt when Apple announced that iOS 17 wouldn’t run on the iPhone X and older devices. This decision effectively ended the use of the checkm8 exploit to jailbreak any iPhone firmware newer than iOS 16.
If you, like so many other jailbreakers, enjoy the experience of listening to jailbreak makers speak at special events, then you might be interested in knowing that Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) will give a talk at Zer0con 2024.
It’s the most significant cryptographic security upgrade in iMessage history, according to Apple, that will shield us from threats that don’t exist yet.