Security News > 2020 > May > New iPhone jailbreak released

There's a jailbreak available already for iOS 13.5, released by a group known as Unc0ver.

Jailbreaking, as we have said before, can be a risky business, because in the process of jailbreaking you're actively and deliberately exploiting a security vulnerability that wasn't supposed to the there in the first place.

The only cases we know of where iPhone worms have been able to spread from device to device by themselves has been on jailbroken phones, where applying the jailbreak inadvertently opened up devices to remote connections that were blocked before.

A phone maker like Apple can't use the law to prevent you trying to jailbreak your phone.

Jailbreaking purposefully circumvents some of the security barriers that are always in place on non-jailbroken phones.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/05/26/new-iphone-jailbreak-released/