{"id":234455,"date":"2026-04-02T06:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/apple-expands-ios-18-7-7-update-to-more-devices-to-block-darksword-exploit"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:26:01","slug":"apple-expands-ios-18-7-7-update-to-more-devices-to-block-darksword-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/apple-expands-ios-18-7-7-update-to-more-devices-to-block-darksword-exploit","title":{"rendered":"Apple Expands iOS 18.7.7 Update to More Devices to Block DarkSword Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-expands-ios-18-7-7-update-to-more-devices-to-block-darksword-exploit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/126793\">expanded<\/a> the availability of iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 to a broader range of devices to protect users from the risk posed by a recently disclosed exploit kit known as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/darksword-ios-exploit-kit-uses-6-flaws.html\">DarkSword<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe enabled the availability of iOS 18.7.7 for more devices on April 1, 2026, so users with Automatic Updates turned on can automatically receive important security protections from web attacks called DarkSword,\u201d the company said. \u201cThe fixes associated with the DarkSword exploit first shipped in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple on Wednesday expanded the availability of iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 to a broader range of devices to protect users from the risk posed by a recently disclosed exploit kit known as DarkSword. \u201cWe enabled the availability of iOS 18.7.7 for more devices on April 1, 2026, so users with Automatic Updates turned on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}