I wish I had a better sense of how these zero-click vulnerabilities work so I could get a sense of how to protect myself from them (you know, without giving in to Liquid Glass). Can they be blocked by an ad blocker? Are they blocked by any extant ad blockers? What about “Lockdown Mode”?
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#22I'm really hoping Apple backtracks on its refusal to update the 18.x line for phones that are compatible with 26. At least provide a security update.
Not going to happen (despite my still being on 18.x) because they want to force you to upgrade to 26 for publicity. As simple as that.
The new "security upgrade available" will (I bet) be "to 26".
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#24I was literally just attending a course on "innovation" and the topic of Apple vs Android was covered. Interestingly enough, a majority of students commenting cited iOS "security" as a core value proposition. As an Android user, however, I know there are a lot of CVEs in volume but in terms of severity, when an iOS issue happens it appears to generally be much more severe.
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#25Welp, I've been holding on out that liquid glass crap as long possible. Guess my phone is just going to suck now.
I thought the same thing but updated couple weeks back and actually really really enjoy the liquid glass. I don't recall what it was about the release that made me think I'd hate it, but I've half fallen in love with it, I was just thinking yesterday I wonder what all the fuss was about.
I don’t like it on the iPhone, but it’s more a “sigh, I’ll live with it” downgrade than a catastrophic one (at least once you go into the Safari settings and turn off the huge useless address bar by putting it in compact mode). It’s on the Mac where it’s truly a shitshow.
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#26Here is the Google Research group's writeup https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar... Relevant forward: > GTIG has identified several different users of the DarkSword exploit chain dating back to November 2025. In addition to the case studies on DarkSword usage documented in this blog post, we assess it is likely that other commercial surveillance vendors or threat actors may also be using DarkS…
I know everyone hates liquid glass but isn’t that better security wise than being on an iOS that’s 8 versions behind?
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#27The interesting angle here is what this means for passes and credentials stored in Apple Wallet. If device compromise is this accessible, the assumption that Wallet passes are isolated from the rest of the device needs more scrutiny. Apple's security model relies heavily on the secure enclave but a tool like this changes the threat surface significantly.
This is always the threat with walled garden style security. When you couple applications so tightly in an intrinsic trust network, on the basis that no external attacker can gain access, then the internal security is neglected and it only takes the weakest link.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What device? I don't see anything beyond 26.3.1 on my iPhone 15 PromaxXDR™
iPhone 15 (vanilla) running iOS 18.7.2. I now have a permanent notification on my lock screen nagging me to update to iOS 26.
Enabling beta updates for ios18 should kill the nagging notification.
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#29Here is the Google Research group's writeup https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar... Relevant forward: > GTIG has identified several different users of the DarkSword exploit chain dating back to November 2025. In addition to the case studies on DarkSword usage documented in this blog post, we assess it is likely that other commercial surveillance vendors or threat actors may also be using DarkS…
I know everyone hates liquid glass but isn’t that better security wise than being on an iOS that’s 8 versions behind?
There are not 8 major versions between iOS 18 and iOS 26. Apple skipped the monotonously increasing version numbering system since iOS 1 during WDDC 2025 to adopt a year suffix based versioning system.
iOS 17, then iOS 18, then iOS 26, then iOS 27.
You're not the only party confused.
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#30It's actually a fascinating find by Lookout, iVerify, and Google. This is a multi million dollar exploit chain sold to various buyers.
Complete full chain 1-click exploit from Safari to complete device take over exfiltrating personal data, passwords, and crypto wallets.
https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/darkswor...
https://iverify.io/blog/darksword-ios-exploit-kit-explained
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...