The biggest leak in Apple's history that could allow hackers to discover zero-day flaws to develop persistent malware and iPhone jailbreaks.

gueahm (45)in #news • 7 years ago

Apple source code for a core component of iPhone's operating system has purportedly been leaked on GitHub, that could allow hackers and researchers to discover currently unknown zero-day vulnerabilities to develop persistent malware and iPhone jailbreaks.
The source code appears to be for iBoot—the critical part of the iOS operating system that's responsible for all security checks and ensures a trusted version of iOS is loaded.
In other words, it's like the BIOS of an iPhone which makes sure that the kernel and other system files being booted whenever you turn on your iPhone are adequately signed by Apple and are not modified anyhow.

The biggest leak in Apple's history that could allow hackers to discover zero-day flaws to develop persistent malware and iPhone jailbreaks.

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