From Frank C
I just found this in ARSTECHNICA. If you have not upgraded from iOS 18 or previous, you should upgrade to iOS 26 TODAY!!
Frank
“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.
“A vast number of iOS users could have all of their personal data stolen simply for visiting a popular website,” says Rocky Cole, iVerify’s cofounder and CEO. “Hundreds of millions of people who are still using older Apple devices or older operating system versions remain vulnerable.”
The iPhone-hacking campaign that used DarkSword has come to light just two weeks after the revelation of another, even more sophisticated and fully featured hacking toolkit known as Coruna was found in use by what Google describes as a Russian state-sponsored espionage group and other hacker groups. Although DarkSword appears to have been created by different developers from Coruna, the researchers found
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“Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild”
Andy Greenberg, Wired.com
Ars Technica
https://apple.news/AQCYpGj9ZT0aHGsT8dZfm4g
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