Usbliter8: An un-patchable security vulnerability for some iPhones

On 18 June 2026, Paradigm Shift, a security research company, published an exploit they discovered (maybe, more on that later) which they called usbliter8. It is a BootROM exploit that affects Apple A12 and A13 family chips.[1] What is ROM and why is a boot ROM so bad? ROM stands for read-only memory and means …