{"id":13753,"date":"2026-06-20T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/unpatchable-usbliter8-exploit-breaks-html\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:03:33","slug":"unpatchable-usbliter8-exploit-breaks-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/unpatchable-usbliter8-exploit-breaks-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpatchable &#8216;usbliter8&#8217; Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Unpatchable &#8216;usbliter8&#8217; Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Security researchers at\u00a0Paradigm Shift\u00a0have published a working exploit, dubbed\u00a0usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple&#8217;s A12 and A13 chips.<\/p>\n<p>That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it. Affected devices will carry this flaw for as long as they stay in use.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a remote attack. It requires<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/unpatchable-usbliter8-exploit-breaks.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpatchable &#8216;usbliter8&#8217; Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain Security researchers at\u00a0Paradigm Shift\u00a0have published a working exploit, dubbed\u00a0usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple&#8217;s A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it. Affected devices will carry this flaw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}