
Multiple Threat Actors Exploiting a Six-Vulnerability iOS Exploit Kit Dubbed “DarkSword”
It takes a single page load on a compromised Ukrainian government site, no tap, no download, no warning — and an iPhone running iOS 18.4 through 18.6.2 hands over its messages, photos, passwords, Telegram history, iCloud files, and cryptocurrency wallet keys to an attacker halfway across the world, then erases every trace of the intrusion within minutes. That is DarkSword. And it has already spread to at least four countries. On Wednesday, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), mobile security firm Lookout and device integrity company iVerify published coordinated research disclosing a new iOS full-chain exploit kit they named DarkSword — a name taken directly from a variable buried inside...