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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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wen eta jailbreak
My <5 year old iPhone could not handle the absolutely braindead “liquid glass” of ios26. The phone overheated regularly. The battery drained twice as fast as expected. And every action on the phone took longer than on previous versions.
It’s also painful on the eyes, and removing the motion and transparency makes the user experience worse somehow.
Guess I’m fucked for not upgrading my phone every year, and Russia can have my wifi.
Your <5 year old phone is very capable and could definitely handle it.
They just want you to think it’s more advanced and more difficult to render, rather than a deliberate performance degradation to make you want to upgrade.The iphone 3gs could render infinity blade. Don’t let apple fool you into believing a pixel shader is too much for a device that came out a decade later to handle.
More jailbreaking opportunities? 👀
Asking the real important questions here
As an American I feel like the biggest digital threat is our government.
All others get smack in the face and a stern “we’re re supposed to be on the same team!”
The government is controlled by corporations and special interests. The fact is, we are not on the same team as Google, Amazon, Palantir, Microsoft, etc.,
I know the government will, through heavy handedness, bureaucratic roadblocks, corruption, and naked police/military violence, be the ones who enforce the new privacy laws; and like all laws, enforced unevenly based on wealth, geography, race, ethnicity, queer visibility, etc. The govt is the stick and the hand that holds it.
But the state works for the capitalists, and it has ever since this country’s inception. it should be undeniable at this point. The contradiction between capitalism and the state are not as acute or relevant as the contradiction between the .001% and the rest of us.
where? asking for a friend.
The right thing for Apple to do here, is patch all devices. But they won’t do that. So… ok
Apple has longer support for updates than any other manufacturer. This exploit is for iOS 18 and it was already patched for most users on most devices by the time we are hearing about it.
Fuck I don’t have blobs for 18
Specifically 18.4 to 18.7. I’m still on 18.1, so presumably not vulnerable to DarkSword. And Coruna is iOS 13 to 17.2.1. So even on 18.1 there’s no jailbreak on the immediate horizon.
Apple did release updates for end of life iOS versions going back to version 15 because of this, for devices going back as far as the original iPhone SE and iPhone 6S, which are well over ten years old.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/11/apple-rolls-out-ios-and-ipados-updates-for-older-devices/
While I do know they support older devices better than some others, the article said anything 18 and below is vulnerable. Some of the latest updates in your linked page are only up to 16.7.14.
Edit. I’m also not suggesting they must support 16 year old devices. Only that it would be the right thing here. Not expected, though.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43010
This issue is fixed in iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2, Safari 17.2, iOS 16.7.15 and iPadOS 16.7.15, iOS 15.8.7 and iPadOS 15.8.7.
If the new version targets more devices I’d expect them to release similar updates.
Edit: I’m not sure if that’s the relevant DarkSword CVE but it is the one for the latest security update. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobile/2026/03/a-darksword-hangs-over-unpatched-iphones claims DarkSword only affects 18.4 through 18.7 (and of course 26.0 until 26.3), and https://www.pcmag.com/news/update-your-iphone-now-new-darksword-hack-targets-older-ios-18-versions claims it was patched in 18.7.6 (whose security disclosure has not been published).
