If you’ve been putting off an update to iOS 26, now might be the time to do it. On Wednesday, security researchers published findings on a new hacking tool that targets iPhones running iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2, as reported earlier by Wired. The “DarkSword” exploit allows bad actors to scoop up the personal information on iPhones that visit malicious links, and has already been used by Russian hackers.
The Google Threat Intelligence Group worked with the cybersecurity firms Lookout and iVerify to analyze the attack, which could affect up to 270 million devices still running the impacted versions of iOS 18. When a user accesses a compromised websit …