A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
Generally speaking, you don't really want to be downloading anything from the dark web, if you can help it: The dark web waters are swimming with malware, scams, and otherwise unwholesome material.
Security researchers discover the 'Coruna' exploit kit running on malicious Chinese websites that were able to secretly hack vulnerable iPhones running iOS 13 to 17.2.1.