Security News > 2020 > January > And we now go live to Apple v Corellium, where the iTitan is still lobbing copyright fireballs at the virtual iPhone upstart

The case - essentially a US copyright infringement claim - centers on Apple's allegations that Corellium illegally copied the mobile operating system, and unlawfully made derivative versions by modifying the software to run on Corellium's iPhone hypervisor.

While Corellium argued that Apple is trying to crack down on who can rifle through iOS for bugs and exploitable flaws, and snuff out jailbreaking efforts, the iGiant's latest paperwork homes in on its central allegations that Corellium is trying to make a fast buck by ripping off iOS and its bundled apps and user interface - technology that Apple has not licensed to Corellium.

"The Corellium Apple Product makes modifications to iOS that allows it to be installed on, and run from, Corellium-developed or Corellium-operated hardware," Apple said in its amended complaint.

"Such modifications include disabling loadable firmware validation, disabling self-verification of the FIPS module, adding Corellium software to the 'trust cache,' and instructing the restore tool not to contact Apple servers for kernel / device tree / firmware signing."

The proceedings are being watched closely by the infosec and jailbreaking communities, where there is fear that a win would give Apple legal precedent to go after other researchers and hobbyists.

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