TechCrunch reports:
Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users that used an advanced hacking tool called DarkSword. Now someone has leaked a newer version of DarkSword and published it on the code-sharing site GitHub.
Researchers are warning that this will allow any hacker to easily use the tools to target iPhone users running older versions of Apple’s operating systems who have not yet updated to its latest iOS 26 software. This likely affects hundreds of millions of actively used iPhones and iPads, according to Apple’s own data on out-of-date devices.
“This is bad. They are way too easy to repurpose,” Matthias Frielingsdorf, the co-founder of mobile security startup iVerify, told TechCrunch on Monday. “I don’t think that can be contained anymore. So we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this.”
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