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
on 24 Mar 05:56
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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 thatâs iOS 26 compatible.
So cool Apple stopped making iOS 2 updates for all devices above iPhone 3G. /s Forcing users on iPhone 1 to choose either staying on the more stable 2.2.1 where they were comfortable, or the garbage can of iOS 3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/26.
Youâre being downvoted, but youâre correct. Apple is probably risking a lawsuit by not shipping an already available security update for all users of iOS 18.
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Please tell me that the vulnerability is due to government surveilance backdoors
You sure know what news you wanna hear đ
Its been news before, so there is precedence for that possibility.
Ummm, it wasnât me this time, I swear
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.
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 thatâs iOS 26 compatible.
So cool Apple stopped making iOS 2 updates for all devices above iPhone 3G. /s Forcing users on iPhone 1 to choose either staying on the more stable 2.2.1 where they were comfortable, or the garbage can of iOS 3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/26.
Youâre being downvoted, but youâre correct. Apple is probably risking a lawsuit by not shipping an already available security update for all users of iOS 18.
Well well well. Lookie thereâŚ
wired.com/âŚ/apple-will-push-out-rare-backported-pâŚ
That just tells you they know how awful iOS 26 is lol.
Aww whereâs the link? I have an old iPhone that my ex-employeer didnât want back - I wouldnât mind playing around with it.
Had to use duckduckgo to find it, but just âdarksword site:github.comâ worked. Itâs not showing up in Google results.
github.com/htimesnine/DarkSword-RCE
Thereâs also an implementation in objc: github.com/opa334/darksword-kexploit
FYI, you can just use
!gitor!ghwith duckduckgo to focus on githubDuckDuckGo Bangs
(But interesting that Googleâs filtering resultsâŚ)