MacOS

Background vphone-cli boots a real iOS 26 virtual machine on Apple Silicon Macs. It is not the Xcode Simulator (which compiles iOS apps for the host architecture); it uses Apple’s private Virtualization.framework PV=3 (Platform Version 3) APIs — the same infrastructure Apple built for Private Cloud Compute (PCC) security research VMs. Under the hood, vphone-cli patches the entire iOS boot chain — AVPBooter, iBSS, iBEC, LLB, TXM, and the kernelcache — to bypass signature verification and allow a custom firmware to boot inside the VM. The jailbreak variant applies 127 binary patches across the boot chain and CFW installation, enabling full root/SSH/Sileo/TrollStore on the guest. ...

Vulnerability Overview CVE-2026-20660 is a path handling vulnerability in Apple’s CFNetwork framework that allows a remote attacker to write files to arbitrary locations on the victim’s filesystem by serving a malicious gzip file. Field Details Component CFNetwork (macOS) Impact A remote user may be able to write arbitrary files Fix Description A path handling issue was addressed with improved logic Fixed In Safari 26.3 / macOS Sequoia 26.3 (2026-02-11) Discovered By Amy Vulnerability Class Path Traversal via Gzip FNAME header (RFC 1952) Trigger Condition Safari “Open safe files after downloading” enabled (on by default) Advisory Apple Security Release - Safari 26.3 Disclosure note: This is a 1-day analysis performed independently after Apple released the fix in Safari 26.3. The original vulnerability was discovered and reported by Amy. All testing was conducted on macOS with the affected version (Safari 26.2 / macOS 26.2.1) against locally controlled systems. ...

For any serious reverse engineer, keeping a clean and organized scripting environment is key. Using a Python virtual environment (venv) for your IDA Pro projects is the best way to manage dependencies and avoid conflicts. Many online guides are outdated, recommending methods that no longer work. This post provides a single, modern, and straightforward solution to connect a Python venv to IDA Pro on macOS using the official, built-in IDAPythonrc startup script. ...