Apple sends jailbroken iPhones to researchers to find vulnerabilities

Speaking to Business Insider , Spanish security researcher Gergely Kalman said that the jailbroken device would allow experts to run arbitrary code to search for vulnerabilities and bugs. Apple previously offered a $1 million bounty for bug discovery in 2019, and announced that it would soon send "special" versions of iPhones to security researchers.

The jailbroken iPhone Apple sent to Gergely Kalman

These efforts by Apple to prevent potential exploits come after hackers began abusing them. Just last December, Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered one of the “most sophisticated” zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS. This allowed hackers to exploit Apple’s iMessage file attachment feature to bypass iOS’s hardware-based memory protections and gain full control of the device. Notably, hackers could break in and steal sensitive data without the user even opening the flawed message.

Although Apple later patched the vulnerability, Kaspersky still criticized Apple because its devices are never truly secure in the context of increasingly evolving cyberattack methods.

The image posted by Kalman shows that the jailbroken iPhone will allow developers to investigate the system in a customer-like state. Researchers can add developer tools and platform privileges to the device through its subsystem. These particular iPhones have not yet gone through the full production process and are not widely available.

Jailbreaking an iPhone is the equivalent of rooting an Android device, which allows users to modify the phone's operating system. Non-developers should not root or jailbreak their phones, as the process can break the device's system and even result in losing their Apple ID.

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