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DarkSword emerges as powerful iOS exploit tool in global attacks

ID: ab91c714-746a-59c2-87e8-da164a4e391d

STIX ID: report--ab91c714-746a-59c2-87e8-da164a4e391d

Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2026-03-19

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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*DarkSword* is a newly disclosed iOS full‑chain exploit kit (six CVEs, three zero‑days) observed since late 2025 in watering‑hole campaigns across Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine; it enables near‑complete device takeover of iPhones on iOS 18.4–18.7 to rapidly exfiltrate credentials and crypto wallet data in a hit‑and‑run fashion and has been used by multiple actors including the suspected UNC6353, illustrating exploit proliferation on secondary markets.

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