{"id":60335,"date":"2026-03-18T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/state-snoops-and-spyware-vendors-planting-info-stealing-malware-on-iphones-google-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:39:04","slug":"state-snoops-and-spyware-vendors-planting-info-stealing-malware-on-iphones-google-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/state-snoops-and-spyware-vendors-planting-info-stealing-malware-on-iphones-google-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by &#8220;multiple&#8221; spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit kit, called DarkSword, has been in use since at least November 2025. It supports&nbsp;iOS versions 18.4 through 18.7, and exploits six different vulnerabilities to deploy three different backdoors that steal a ton of personal information, including messages, recordings, location history, signed-in accounts, cryptocurrency wallet data, and more.<\/p>\n<p>In coordinated research published Wednesday, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/threat-intelligence\/darksword-ios-exploit-chain\">Google<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/iverify.io\/blog\/darksword-ios-exploit-kit-explained\">iVerify<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lookout.com\/threat-intelligence\/article\/darksword\">Lookout<\/a> analyzed the malware and noted that this is the second time this month that they&#8217;ve spotted disparate criminal groups using a single iOS exploit kit to spy on iPhone users. The earlier exploit framework is called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/04\/kaspersky_dismisses_claims_that_coruna\/\">Coruna<\/a>, and one of the earlier groups abusing Coruna &#8211; a suspected Russian espionage crew tracked as UNC6353 &#8211; has also been using DarkSword in its watering hole campaigns targeting Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The DarkSword exploit kit abuses six vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-31277, CVE-2025-43529, CVE-2026-20700, CVE-2025-14174, CVE-2025-43510, and CVE-2025-43520.&nbsp; All six have since been patched, so be sure to update to the latest iOS release.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apple did not respond to <em>The Register&#8217;s<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\">How the exploit chain works<\/h3>\n<p>The attack requires an iPhone user to navigate to a malicious website to trigger the exploit chain. It begins with miscreants exploiting either CVE-2025-31277 or CVE-2025-43529 \u2013 depending on the iOS version \u2013 to achieve remote code execution, according to iVerify&#8217;s analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these bugs allow attackers to obtain arbitrary memory read\/write primitives, and once they&#8217;ve done this, they bypass Trusted Path Read-Only (TPRO) and Pointer Authentication Codes (PAC) mitigations by exploiting CVE-2026-20700.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This allows them to fully sidestep the SPRR and JIT Cage mitigations via thread state manipulation and achieve arbitrary code execution within the WebContent process,&#8221; iVerify&#8217;s Matthias Frielingsdorf and Mateusz Krzywicki wrote.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The attackers then pivot to escape the sandbox via the GPU process by abusing an Angle out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2025-14174), combined with the same PAC bypass method, and obtain arbitrary memory read\/write and arbitrary function call primitives in the GPU process.<\/p>\n<p>From here, the attackers target the XNU kernel through selector 1 in the AppleM2ScalerCSCDriver driver. This triggers a Copy-On-Write vulnerability (CVE-2025-43510). &#8220;This flaw is leveraged to establish arbitrary memory read\/write and arbitrary function call primitives in the mediaplaybackd daemon via exposed XPC interfaces,&#8221; the researchers wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the attackers abuse CVE-2025-43520 to escalate privileges in the kernel and inject in-memory JavaScript implants into other system processes to extract sensitive data from the Apple device.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\">Who is using DarkSword to spy on iPhone users?<\/h3>\n<p>Google&#8217;s research details three different&nbsp;groups abusing this attack chain, but also notes that &#8220;it is likely that other commercial surveillance vendors or threat actors may also be using DarkSword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A threat cluster it tracks as UNC6748, using a Snapchat-themed website, snapshare[.]chat, has been using DarkSword to target Saudi Arabian users &#8220;multiple times throughout November 2025,&#8221; the threat intel team wrote.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33abslzhu2y7YNSRyzfXhF9wAAAJc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>These attacks ultimately deployed GhostKnife, a JavaScript-based backdoor with modules for stealing different types of data, including signed-in accounts, messages, browser data, location history, and recordings.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to stealing data, it downloads files from the command-and-control server, takes screenshots of the victim&#8217;s device, and records audio from the device&#8217;s microphone.<\/p>\n<p>In another DarkSword campaign from late November 2025, Google&#8217;s threat intelligence group spotted Turkish commercial surveillance vendor PARS Defense using the exploit against Turkish iOS users. Then, in January, they observed a different PARS Defense customer targeting victims in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>These instances used a different JavaScript backdoor called GhostSaber with capabilities including device and account enumeration, file listing, data exfiltration, and remote JavaScript code execution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Observed GHOSTSABER samples contain references to several commands that lack the necessary code to be executed, including some that purport to record audio from the device&#8217;s microphone and send the device&#8217;s current geolocation to the C2 server,&#8221; the Googlers wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Google tracked UNC6353 using DarkSword in a new watering hole campaign targeting Ukrainian users to deploy a backdoor dubbed GhostBlade. This JavaScript dataminer collects a ton of data &#8211; everything from texts, chats from messaging apps, contacts, call logs, device and account identifiers and profiles, location history, photos and their meta data, cryptocurrency wallet data, browser cookies and more &#8211; from compromised devices and then sends it to an attacker-controlled server over HTTPS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unlike GHOSTKNIFE and GHOSTSABER, GHOSTBLADE is less capable and does not support any additional modules or backdoor-like functionality; it also does not operate continuously,&#8221; according to Google.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Lookout notes, both DarkSword and the earlier exploit kit, Coruna, steal sensitive data and cryptocurrency, indicating &#8220;both tools can be used for espionage as well as financial theft.&#8221; This leads it to assess that UNC6353 &#8220;is a well-funded, well-connected but technically less sophisticated threat actor whose goals include both financial gain and espionage aligned 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