Apple recently released the long awaited iOS/iPadOS 14.0 update alongside an updated Xcode 12.0. As part of this update, Apple fixed a vulnerability in the Development Tools, that was reported earlier this year as a joint effort by our Zimperium zLabs researcher and VP of Product Security Nikias Bassen, and […]
Can you explain what checkm8 is? On Friday, September 27th 2019, a security researcher known as @axi0mX publicly disclosed a vulnerability together with a working exploit called checkm8 (read “checkmate”). This permanent and unpatchable exploit leverages a vulnerability in Apple’s bootrom (read-only code; SecureROM), the initial and critical part in […]