India, March 20 -- If you haven't updated your iPhone in a while, now might be a good time to do so. Earlier this week, security researchers from Google and two cybersecurity firms, Lookout and iVerily, shared their findings of a new hacking technique that steals user's data - all from visiting a wrong website on their iPhones. The exploit called "DarkSword" was first discovered in late 2025. Since then, it has been used to target iPhone users in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia and Ukraine.

"...if you're using an older version of iOS and were to click a malicious link or visit a compromised website, the data on your iPhone might be at risk of being stolen," Apple wrote in its security blog.

DarkSword is not a single exploit. Instead, it ...