If you have an iPhone, listen up: There’s a new security risk that hackers have been actively exploiting since at least November. While you’re not likely to be the target of such an attack, your iPhone is nevertheless vulnerable, unless you take the following (albeit simple) action: update your iPhone.
What is DarkSword?
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified the new “full-chain exploit,” in partnership with security firms Lookout and iVerify. The exploit, called “DarkSword,” takes advantage of six zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise iPhones. GTIG says, as of November, it observed “multiple commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state-sponsored actors” using DarkSword in malware campaigns. As of now, those targets have been in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine.
DarkSword can attack iPhones running iOS 18.4 through iOS 18.7, according to GTIG (though iVerify and Lookout say the exploit they tested ends at iOS 18.6.2). The chain uses three malware families (GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, and
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