Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

Wired reports a powerful iPhone-hacking toolset called “DarkSword” observed in the wild that can fully compromise devices running iOS 18 when users simply visit compromised websites (drive‑by web exploit). Reporting links the toolkit to Russian-affiliated operators and raises the possibility the capability is widespread — potentially impacting hundreds of millions of iPhones — and may be related to previously reported government-grade iPhone toolkits (e.g., Coruna). No specific CVE identifiers were published with the article; the vulnerability class is remote code execution via the browser/OS.