Over the weekend, Nugget developer LeminLimez released a new add-on called Pocket Poster for iPhones running iOS 17.0 and later that allowed users to apply custom community-made animated wallpapers to their device. These wallpapers could be downloaded from a community wallpapers page hosted by the developer.
At the end of last year, we talked about an interesting attempt by hackers to port iPadOS 18 to the iPad (6th generation) – a device that seems to be capable of running the firmware based on substantial similarities to the officially-supported iPad (7th generation), but has simply been left off the table by Apple in an effort to force planned obsolescence on its users.
Security researcher @wh1te4ever shared a particularly interesting tidbit via their 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) social media account this weekend of what appears to be a WebKit-based re-jailbreak demonstration for iOS 12 devices.
Nugget developer LeminLimez has released a new add-on for iPhones running iOS 17.0 and later this Sunday afternoon called Pocket Poster that makes it possible for end users to apply custom community-made animated wallpapers to their device for an added level of personalization not seen on stock handsets.
While there hasn’t been any word of a modern iOS or iPadOS jailbreak lately, there’s been a lot of movement in jailbreak development for older legacy firmware versions as of late. The latest to join the fray is a new tool called Aquila by iOS developer staturnz, which targets all devices that can run iOS 6.
In an interesting turn of events, iOS developer @skadz108, the same person who created the dirtyZero device customization toolbox based on Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 security vulnerability, took to social media platform 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) on Thursday to share that they were working on a new project called Alpine.
In iOS & iPadOS 18.4.1, Apple patched CVE-2025-31200, which is a CoreAudio security vulnerability patch that could have enabled arbitrary code execution in the userspace process responsible for processing the malicious file. Apple was made aware of instances in which this vulnerability may have been used against specifically targeted individuals and consequently patched it with improved bounds checking.
PureKFD is an iOS toolbox for non-jailbroken devices that supports various versions of iOS & iPadOS ranging from 14.0 through 18.0/18.1 beta 4. While it previously only supported firmware versions that were susceptible to the Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploit, that all changed recently when the toolbox added support for the more recent SparseRestore exploit starting with version 6.
A couple of months ago, talented hobbyist and security researcher @alfiecg_dev shared a write-up on a deterministic kernel exploit called Trigon that was based on CVE-2023-32434 with a 100% success rate, but support was limited to certain older devices running older firmware. Since then, it appears that @alfiecg_dev has been busy…
When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.7 back in 2023, they patched a security vulnerability discovered by Bill Marczak that has since been coined CVE-2023-41992. Apple noted in the online ‘About the security content of iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7’ support document page that this was a kernel vulnerability that may have enabled an attacker to elevate their privileges.
Back in March, Dopamine jailbreak tool and TrollStore perma-signing utility lead developer Lars Fröder, or perhaps better known in this community as @opa334dev, spoke at a cybersecurity conference called Nullcon Goa 2025 to discuss the state of jailbreaking in 2025.
In case you didn’t already know, there’s a new kernel exploit out in the wild that renowned Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer recently published a writeup about. CVE-2025-24203, which is being referred to by the iPhone & iPad hacking community as dirtyZero or mdc0, is a kernel exploit that allows for certain system customizations akin to what the MacDirtyCow exploit was once capable of on supported firmware.