Aww where’s the link? I have an old iPhone that my ex-employeer didn’t want back - I wouldn’t mind playing around with it.
Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones
Submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to cybersecurity@infosec.pub
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plateee@piefed.social 2 months ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Had to use duckduckgo to find it, but just “darksword site:github.com” worked. It’s not showing up in Google results.
github.com/htimesnine/DarkSword-RCE
There’s also an implementation in objc: github.com/opa334/darksword-kexploit
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 months ago
FYI, you can just use
!gitor!ghwith duckduckgo to focus on github(But interesting that Google’s filtering results…)
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Please tell me that this is due to government surveilance backdoors
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It appears to be related to exploit code that was sold by a US contractor to a Russian group; the exploits it uses are all patched on recent OS versions, but older versions of iOS 17 and 18 are vulnerable.
RustyShackleford@piefed.social 2 months ago
So cool that Apple stopped making iOS 18 updates for all devices above iPhone XR. /s Forcing users on 11/12/13/14/15/16/17 devices to choose either staying on the more stable 18.7.2 where they were comfortable, or the garbage can of iOS 26. They fixed the DarkSword issue on the XR and select iPads with a 18.8 patch, but refuse to release it for anyone still on 18.7.2, on any device that’s iOS 26 compatible.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ummm, it wasn’t me this time, I swear
leviathan@feddit.org 2 months ago
You sure know what news you wanna hear 😄
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its been news before, so there is precedence for that possibility.