As expected, following the announcement that tfp0 (kernel task port) had been achieved on an iOS 16.1.1 device, the palera1n team has officially added support for iOS & iPadOS 16 to its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak tool in version 1.4.0.
It looks like iOS & iPadOS 16 support could be coming to the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak a lot sooner than originally anticipated.
Hacker and security researcher @_simo36 shared a particularly captivating Tweet this weekend that was comprised of a screenshot in which they appeared to show off a vulnerability proof of concept (PoC) via a command line interface for an iPhone 14 (iPhone 15,3) running iOS 16.1.2 (build 20B110).
The palera1n team appears to be looking into the possibility of adding iOS & iPadOS 16 support to its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak tool for A9-A11 devices.
Security researcher @_simo36 turned quite a few heads with a Tweet shared on Friday that appears to contain a proof of concept (PoC) for an exploit chain called WeightBufs that achieves kernel memory read and write capabilities on some versions of iOS & iPadOS 15 and macOS 12.
At the start of October, Linus Henze took the stage at the Objective by the Sea conference to showcase his Fugu15 jailbreak on an iPhone running iOS 15.4.1 with a slick new installation method that reminded a lot of us of the JailbreakMe days. And as of this Monday, it’s officially released and open source on Henze’s GitHub page.
Sakura Development team member @dora2ios, perhaps best known for their part in developing the kok3shi jailbreak, has released a new work-in-progress developer-centric jailbreak tool called ayakurume for iOS 15 that utilizes the same checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit as the venerable checkra1n jailbreak tool.
Following the release of Linus Henze’s developer-centric Fugu15 jailbreak for arm64e devices running iOS 15.0-15.4.1, iOS developer opa334 released two subsequent updates to TrollStore to fix an issue with installing the Fugu15 jailbreak through the popular perma-signing utility. The first update was marked version 1.3.3, while the second was marked version 1.3.4.
Sakura Development team member @dora2ios, previously known for their effort in creating the kok3shi jailbreak for 64-bit iOS 9.3.2-9.3.5 devices, Tweeted attention-grabbing screenshots this week of a jailbroken iPhone running iOS 16.1.
Speaking at the Hexacon security conference in Paris, France on Friday, hacker and security researcher Luca Todesco discussed Apple’s latest mobile software security trends and showed off a jailbreak on iOS 16.1 beta.
Today is a day that many avid jailbreakers have waited for. Security researcher Linus Henze gave a much-anticipated talk at the Objective by the Sea security conference in which he demonstrated his Fugu15 jailbreak on an iOS 15.4.1 device using a fascinating JailbreakMe-style Safari-based method to do so.
If you’ve been following along with us this week, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the new developer-centric palera1n jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7 which is based on the same checkm8 bootrom exploit that made the checkra1n jailbreak famous.