{"id":1001250,"date":"2026-04-04T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001250"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:04:35","slug":"apple-releases-ios-18-7-7-to-block-darksword-and-these-iphone-users-need-to-update-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/apple-releases-ios-18-7-7-to-block-darksword-and-these-iphone-users-need-to-update-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases iOS 18.7.7 to block DarkSword, and these iPhone users need to update immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 to shield a much larger group of iPhone and iPad users from DarkSword\u2014a hacking toolkit that can quietly ransack a device just from a website visit. The update is notable for who it covers: millions of users on iOS 18 who own hardware capable of running iOS 26 but have chosen not to upgrade. They&#8217;ve been sitting exposed for two weeks. That changes now.Users with automatic updates enabled get the patch without lifting a finger. Everyone else can update to either iOS 18.7.7 or iOS 26, though Apple would clearly prefer the latter.<\/p>\n<p>DarkSword targets iPhones and iPads running iOS 18.4 through 18.7. Landing on a compromised website\u2014even a legitimate one that&#8217;s been quietly hacked\u2014is enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 to shield a much larger group of iPhone and iPad users from DarkSword\u2014a hacking toolkit that can quietly ransack a device just from a website visit. The update is notable for who it covers: millions of users on iOS 18 who own hardware capable of running iOS 26 but have chosen not to upgrade. They&#8217;ve been sitting exposed for two weeks. That changes now.Users with automatic updates enabled get the patch without lifting a finger. Everyone else can update to either iOS 18.7.7 or iOS 26, though Apple would clearly prefer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}