The battle between Apple and the hackers who publishes solutions to unlock the iPhones continues to rage on, exactly how Steve Jobs predicted not long ago.

Three weeks ago, during his travel in Europe to launch iPhone Steve Jobs was asked about his opinion on the matter and he said Apple will try to stay ahead of hackers.

"It's a cat-and-mouse game," said Jobs. "We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it's our job to stop them breaking in."

Shortly after that on September 27 Apple issued the famous iPhone Update 1.1.1., which rendered useless all the unlocked iPhones. The users of unlocked iPhones who decided to update their gadget, despite Apple’s warning, were transformed in just a matter of minutes, into the owners of an iBrick.

But the hackers behind the groups like iPhoneSIMFree and iPhone Dev Team were decided to strike back and it seems like they have found a way to bring the bricked iPhones back to life.

iPhoneSIMFree, the same team who had published the first unlock solution, announced the Version 1.6 of its software and said it could restore any “unlocked “bricked” iPhone”

“….we are very proud to announce, (after some very difficult and lengthy hardware hackery), we were able to retrieve the necessary info to create the world first 1.1.1 unlock solution. We have now tested SimFree v1.6 with phones that have the new Baseband version 04.01.13_G with full success.” wrote the iPhoneSIMFree on their website.

Also iPhone Dev Team promised that a free unlock of 1.1.1 is on the way.

Let’s see how Apple will react to this news.