Evikini eledlule, abacwaningi bezokuphepha bathole ithuluzi elithuthukile lokugebenga elibizwa ngokuthi “I-DarkSword” isetshenziselwa ukukhomba abasebenzisi be-iPhone. Manje, inguqulo ebuyekeziwe yethuluzi iputshuzwe ku-GitHub, okubangela ukukhathazeka okusabalele.
Abacwaningi baxwayisa ngokuthi noma iyiphi i-hacker ingasebenzisa kalula ithuluzi ukukhomba abasebenzisi be-iPhone ne-iPad abangabuyekezanga ku-iOS yakamuva 26 uhlelo. Ngokusho kwedatha yakwa-Apple, inani lemishini ethintekile lingafinyelela kumakhulu ezigidi.
“Kubi lokhu. Lawa mathuluzi alula kakhulu ukuphinda asetshenziswe,” kusho uMatthias Frielingsdorf, umsunguli wefemu yezokuphepha yeselula iVerify. “Izigebengu zizoqala ukuyitshala maduze nje.”
Uphawule ukuthi amafayela aputshuziwe yi-HTML neJavaScript nje, noma ubani angakwazi ukukusebenzisa phakathi nemizuzu. Ithimba lezokuphepha le-Google liyavumelana nalokhu kuhlola. Omunye wezokuzijabulisa wezokuphepha uthe usevele wasebenzisa isampula ezungeza ku-inthanethi ukuze angene ku-iPad esebenzisa i-iOS 18.
Umkhulumeli we-Apple uSarah O'Rourke uthe inkampani iyabazi ubungozi futhi yakhipha isichibiyelo esiphuthumayo ngoMashi. 11 kumadivayisi angakwazi ukubuyekezela kusistimu yakamuva. “Ukugcina isofthiwe yakho isesikhathini into ebaluleke kakhulu ongayenza ukuze uhlale uvikelekile,” wathi, yengeza ukuthi amadivayisi abuyekeziwe kanye nalawo anemodi yokukhiya enikwe amandla awathinteki.
Ikhodi eputshuziwe iqukethe amazwana anemininingwane achaza indlela yokweba ulwazi olubucayi kumadivayisi okuqondiwe—okuhlanganisa abathintwayo, imiyalezo, umlando wekholi, kanye namaphasiwedi e-Wi-Fi—futhi uyithumele kumaseva alawulwa abahlaseli. Ikhodi iphinde ibhekisele ekulayisheni idatha kuwebhusayithi yase-Ukraine, nakuba isizathu sihlala singacacile.
Ngokusho kocwaningo lwamafemu amaningi onogada, “I-DarkSword” iqondise ngokuqondile amadivayisi asebenzisa i-iOS 18 nezinguqulo zangaphambili. Idatha ye-Apple ibonisa ukuthi cishe ingxenye yesine yabasebenzisi basesekulawa masistimu amadala, okuthi-uma kunikezwe kukhona ezingaphezu kuka 2.5 izigidigidi zamadivayisi asebenzayo—kusho ukuthi amakhulu ezigidi zabasebenzisi ahlala esengozini.
Abacwaningi batusa ukuthi bonke abasebenzisi be-iPhone babuyekeze izinhlelo zabo zokusebenza ngokushesha ngangokunokwenzeka ukuze bavikeleke ekuhlaselweni okungase kube khona.