“Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild”

Andy Greenberg, writing at WIRED:

Researchers at Google and cybersecurity firms iVerify and Lookout on Wednesday jointly revealed the discovery of a sophisticated iPhone hacking technique known as DarkSword that they’ve seen in use on infected websites, capable of instantly and silently hacking iOS devices that visit those sites. While the technique doesn’t affect the latest, updated versions of iOS, it does work against iOS devices running versions of Apple’s previous operating system release, iOS 18, which as of last month still accounted for close to a quarter of iPhones, according to Apple’s own count.

… Both Apple itself and StatCounter, which tracks operating system adoption, released numbers last month showing that close to a quarter of iPhone users remain on iOS 18. To update your iPhone, tap Settings, then General, then Software Update. (And you can find steps for limiting liquid glass here.) Both iVerify and Lookout say their security apps also can detect if a phone is compromised with DarkSword in the form they’ve observed it.

Time to upgrade if you haven’t already.

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites.