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For browser-based jailbreak for iOS 9.1 and 9.2 beta paid a million dollars

Zerodium the company, which buys and exploits information about the “holes” in the software, will reward a group of hackers, which managed have created a jailbreak for iOS 9. Moreover, a tweet indicates that the company was at the disposal of the exploit to hack the latest iOS iOS 9.1 and 9.2 beta browser-based. The hackers, who created an exclusive untethered jailbreak for “nine”, had paid a million dollars.

Earlier in Zerodium stated that they are only interested in zero-day vulnerabilities, which previously nothing was known. Moreover, this jailbreak should not require any intervention from the user except visiting a web page in Safari or reading an SMS.

Recall that with the release of iOS 9.1, Apple has blocked the work of a public jailbreak Pangu. The company has eliminated the vulnerabilities that were used by hackers to create a jailbreak exploit that allows you to jailbreak iOS 9.0-9.0.2. Apple named two areas in which there were vulnerabilities iOS 9 – configd and GasGauge.

After upgrading to iOS 9.1 users iPhone and iPad is not possible to install Cydia. It will take time before Pangu will release an updated solution. Expect the release of jailbreak from Zerodium, however, it is not necessary. It is unlikely that the company paid a million dollars for the vulnerability will be releasing a public version of the jailbreak is browser based.

Incidentally, the earlier these “latchkey” was created. From 2007 to 2011 were posted on the website JailbreakMe.com that allowed you to crack the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch by pressing just one button. However, since then Apple has seriously improved the protection of iOS. In Zerodium acknowledged that iOS 9, though, and vulnerable, “is currently the most secure mobile OS”.

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