iOS 10 Jailbreak News: Pangu Still Working Relentlessly To Release Tool

Sep 08, 2016 04:56 AM EDT | Jomar Teves

Tags apple, iOS, iOS 10

There's great news for the Apple iOS 10 jailbreak tool as the Pangu team, the prominent Chinese programming group in the iOS community that developed the Pangu jailbreaking devices, is currently focusing its resources on iOS 10.

Users should not expect any iOS 9.3.4/5 jailbreak tool from now. This means iOS 9.3.3 is the last jailbreak tool for iOS 9. Apple released the iOS 9.3.5 update following a month of releasing the iOS 9.3.4 update. After this, however, Pangu is rumored to be gearing up for an iOS 10 Jailbreak release. 

What's What in iOS 10

Various critical vulnerabilities were fixed in the most recent update. However, the firmware update has rendered Pangu's aggregate jailbreak tool, covering iOS 9.2 to iOS 9.3.3, futile, writes The Bitbag. Thus, Pangu is focusing its efforts on the Apple iOS 10 jailbreak and users may expect it soon enough. Amid China's MOSEC occasion, the Pangu team revealed a portion of the key security flaws in iOS 10 and even demoed Cydia utilizing an Apple device using iOS 10 beta.

Various tech devotees, however, trust that the iOS 10 jailbreak will be made accessible before the iPhone 7 is released, one week from now. The tech giant presented security improvements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations in its update. Users must download and install the update immediately as it will secure their Apple devices from the three "zero-day exploits" fixes.

Issues regarding iOS 10

The spyware was initially discovered on August 11 when human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor was sent a suspicious link to his iPhone via text message. He played it safe and straightaway sent the link to activist group Citizen Lab and San Francisco-based smartphone security firm Lookout.

The spyware Pegasus can jailbreak Apple devices by means of this link sent as a text message. Clicking the link installs a malware that uses strong encryption to remain undetected. The hacker then accesses to the user's smartphone, reported by The New York Times.

With this in mind, it was proven that iOS 10 was not impregnable after all. And if an iOS version is not impregnable, jailbreak users can bet that the Pangu team will surely exploit its vulnerabilities. 

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