The Misaka package manager app, which hosts a bevy of add-ons made to support both jailbroken and non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads vulnerable to the MacDirtyCow and kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploits, received an important update early Monday morning to version 8.0.0.
So if you’ve been following along in the jailbreak community for the past year, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit, which supported iOS & iPadOS versions 16.0-16.5 & 16.6 beta 1, as well as iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6.
If you’ve been keeping up with the cacophony of news in the jailbreak community recently, then you may recall a project dubbed meowbrek2, a re-jailbreaking utility for the palera1n semi-tethered jailbreak for A9-A11 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-17.x. In effect, meowbrek2 turns the jailbreak into a semi-untethered one on certain firmware versions that we'll discuss below.
Just yesterday, we reported on the release of nekoJB, a kfd exploit-based semi-untethered jailbreak tool for older arm64 devices (iPhone 6s-iPhone X) running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6.
After an entire day of what seemed like good news following the announcement of a KTRR bypass, new information shared on Mastodon by security researcher Hector Martin appears to have even Dopamine developer Lars Fröder second-guessing its usefulness for jailbreaking.
If you’re without a jailbreak and your firmware is too new for any of the recent developments in the jailbreak community recently (I’m looking at all of you who are on iOS or iPadOS 16.6-17.0 and using TrollStore 2), then you might want to pay attention to this.
The emergence of a KTRR bypass for arm64e devices has raised a lot more questions than there are answers. If you’re one of many who are confused about what’s happening and whether this will result in a jailbreak anytime soon, then you’ve come to the right place.
It was only back in August when we first heard about the nekoJB project by HAHALOSAH, which was essentially a kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit-based jailbreak for arm64 devices —the iPhone X and older — and today, that project appears to have reached completion.
The Havoc repository is once again expanding its presence in our iPhone hacking and jailbreaking communities — this time moving quickly to embrace TrollStore add-ons.
Back in 2022, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called CopyLog that was essentially a clipboard manager for pwned devices. But what if we told you that you didn’t need a jailbreak to use it?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard all about TrollStore 2 by now and how it expands upon the original TrollStore’s iOS & iPadOS 14.0-15.4.1 support by adding iOS & iPadOS 15.5-16.5, 16.6 beta 1, and 17.0 support.
While many families were woke up to celebrate the Christmas holiday on the 25th, some were pleasantly surprised by a post from security researcher Boris Larin (@oct0xor) on X (formerly Twitter) saying that a jailbreak for A12 and newer devices running iOS & iPadOS 16.5.1 and older would soon be released.