Techno Savvy Club

Last month, a Bug bounty challenge was announced by Zerodium for finding a hack that must allow an attacker to remotely compromise a non-jailbroken Apple device through:

For those who are not aware, this remote Jailbreak is not really cool.

Why? Because…

The only difference between a malicious cyber attack and Jailbreak is – Payload, the code that executes on target system after exploitation.

A traditional jailbreak process is usually used to deploy an alternative App Store, but in hands of Hackers or law enforcement agencies, the same exploit can allow them to install any app they want with full privileges i.e. SPYWARE, MALWARE or Surveillance software.

Moreover, We know that Zerodium's parent company Vupen develops hacking techniques based on those bugs and typically sells them to multiple government customers.