It has been reported that a new vulnerability in Apple’s iOS operating system is sitting on hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads and iPods, according to the researcher who found it. The hack has been dubbed checkm8 by a researcher who goes by the name axi0mX, who described the hack as “a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit for hundreds of millions of iOS devices.” That means hackers can take the code released by axi0mX on Github and potentially load the firmware (the core of the operating system) onto an iPhone. In turn, that means they have stripped Apple’s control away from the device and could do what they wanted on it, though some additional exploits would be required.
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