Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiMar 23

SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk.

A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."

"The exploits will work out of the box," iVerify's Matthias Frielingsdorf said. "There is no iOS expertise required."

http://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has-publicly-leaked-an-exploit-kit-that-can-hack-millions-of-iphones/

Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunch

Leaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

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Show threadDrew Mochak
@lorenzofb I'm confused by the future tense. It's obviously bad that it's on github because now anyone can use it, but if it existed before it was on github then people were already using it, no?
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