For qualifying into the competition, the hacker needs to offer a complete chain of undisclosed exploits that can avoid each and every aspect of the exploit mitigation measures of Apple and can be executed entirely, silently, and remotely through a text message or browser. The company just pushed out the latest edition of iOS last week, and it seems that, at the time of this writing anyway, no iOS 9 jailbreak is available yet.
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iOS 9 has hit a million downloads, since everyone has enthusiastically been updating to the new firmware right from the moment it was launched a few days ago.
iOS 9 harder to jailbreak?
From there, depending on what version, either Installer.app or Cydia would install in the background and jailbreak the iPhone.
To be considered a victor , an exploit must allow for “a remote, privileged, and persistent installation of an arbitrary app on a fully updated iOS 9 device”.
“Zerodium will pay out one million USA dollars to each individual or team who creates and submits to Zerodium an exclusive, browser-based, and untethered jailbreak for the latest Apple iOS 9 operating system and devices”, Bekrar said.
A well-known buyer and seller of zero-day vulnerabilities in popular software has posted a million bounty for any security researcher who is able to provide a successful jailbreak of Apple Inc’s iOS 9.
“Apple iOS, like all operating system, is often affected by critical security vulnerabilities, however due to the increasing number of security improvements and the effectiveness of exploit mitigations in place, Apple’s iOS is now the most secure mobile OS”. Both of these techniques are hard even for experienced hackers and jailbreak developers.
Earlier this week, Apple finally released the public version of iOS 9 for iPhones and iPads.
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A middle-man or brokerage firm, Zerodium was founded by Chaouki Bekrar to find and take zero-day exploits and resell them to intelligence agencies around the globe. The bug can not be disclosed to Apple or be publicly revealed.
