DarkSword emerges as powerful iOS exploit tool in global attacks

Multiple high-impact incidents reported: DarkSword — a powerful new iOS exploit kit — is being used by multiple actors (including surveillance vendors and likely nation-state actors) in campaigns targeting Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia and Ukraine. The Interlock ransomware group has been exploiting a critical Cisco Secure FMC zero-day RCE (CVE-2026-20131, CVSS 10.0) since late January. Researchers disclosed a critical GNU InetUtils telnetd remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-32746, CVSS 9.8) affecting all versions, and Qualys reported a systemd timing privilege-escalation bug in Ubuntu Desk­