If you update to iOS 12.4 , you might want to intend twice about the apps you download . Apple has unpatched a vulnerability with the latest update , and hackers have already used the chance to release the first prisonbreak for up - to - date iPhones in years , agree to aMotherboardreport .
Apple , unfortunately , reintroduced a bug that was touch on in theiOS 12.3 update . As a consequence , all iPhones running iOS 12.4 can now be jailbroken . Pwn20wnd — the security research worker behind theunc0vertool — released apublic jailbreakfor iOS 12.4 earlier today on Github . While jailbreaking was still doable beforehand , it ’s been a while since you could do it on iPhones start the latest reading of iOS . A Twitter hunting bring out that wad of users have alreadyconfirmedthey’resuccessfullyrunningPwn20wnd ’s jailbreak .
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The flip side is the same bug enabling the jailbreak also mean all updated iPhones are a bit more vulnerable to hacking . More specifically , security researchers told Motherboard that bad doer could take vantage of the unpatched bug to make spyware on Phones . It ’s likely that Apple is already ferment on a mess that will be released with iOS 12.4.1 — specially since it was a bug that had already been antecedently patch . Gizmodo hand out to Apple but did not immediately receive a reception .
In the interim , user operate iOS 12.4 who have zero interest in jailbreaking their iPhones should take extra care downloading apps . Apple may have stricter guidelines regarding what apps are let in its App Store , but as security research worker Stefan Essernoted on Twitter , the public breakout means “ any such app could have a written matter of the breakout in it . ”
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