A well-known hacker has developed an exploit capable of liberating a device with the latest Apple operating system
Network security and ethical hacking
specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report a
significant increase in the activity of the jailbreak
community. Tihmstar, renowned developer and hacker has announced the launch of
v3ntex, an exploit for iOS 12 operating system devices.
In his Twitter biography, Tihmstar asserts that
his work relates to offsets, although in practice it seems to be more of an
investigation of iOS devices and the development of functional solutions for
their liberation.
It was through his Twitter account that the
hacking expert shared a screenshot showing his exploit in action, plus he
posted a console log that shows his code works. Although apparently similar to
previously developed code snippets, network
security specialists claim that this new development is functional on iOS
12 and its updates.
The hacker claims to have tried this exploit on
an iPhone 6 with IOS 12.1.2, confirming that the exploit “is functional up to
this version”.
“If this exploit is familiar to you, you should
try to run it on iOS 12. I feel that something could be improved, but I don’t
know if I should take the trouble to do it myself. Meanwhile, you can have fun
with the v3ntex exploit,” said the hacker, attaching the GitHub link to access
the exploit code.
By publishing the code on GitHub, the hacker
emphasized that code improvements might be possible, although they would not be
decisive changes.
Jake James, the developer of the exploit
RootlessJB, reported that he is having problems with the exploit developed by
Tihmstar, stating that he has not been able to make it work. Still, this work
seems to have laid the groundwork for further functional developments in IOS
12, consider network security specialists.
