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Podcast: Safe Mode Podcast
Episode: When iPhone exploits turn into commodities
Description: A sophisticated iPhone exploit kit known as DarkSword has escaped the world of targeted espionage and landed in public view—leaked on GitHub in a form that researchers say is trivial to repurpose and deploy. With the barrier to entry collapsing to “copy, paste, host,” the immediate concern is no longer whether advanced actors can use it, but how quickly criminal groups and opportunistic attackers will operationalize it against the enormous population of out-of-date iOS devices.
In this episode, Jame’s Michael Covington joins us for a practitioner-level breakdown of what the DarkSword leak changes, who’s exposed, and what defenders ca...