Apple has launched new software updates in its product line to solve two security vulnerabilities, which the company said it may have actively used to hack customers who execute their mobile software, iOS.
In security notices published on its website, Apple confirmed that it solved the Two zero day vulnerabilitiesthat “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific specific individuals.”
Errors are considered zero days because they were unknown to Apple, since they were being exploited.
It is not yet known who is behind the attacks or how many Apple clients were attacked, or if anyone was successful. An Apple spokesman did not return TechCrunch’s investigation.
Apple accredited the discovery of one of the two errors to security researchers working in the Google threat analysis group, which investigates cyber attacks backed by the Government. This may indicate that the attacks aimed at Apple customers were launched or coordinated by a national state or a government agency. It is known that some cyber attacks backed by the Government imply the use of remote spyware and other telephone countless devices.
A Google spokesman did not comment immediately when he was contacted by Techcrunch.
Apple said that one of the errors affects Apple’s Koreaudio, the system component that Apple uses in its various products to allow developers to interact with the audio of the device. Apple said the error could be exploited by processing an audio transmission in a media file in a malicious way, which can allow the execution of malicious code on an apple affected device.
The other error, which Apple took the exclusive credit to discover, allows an attacker to avoid the authentication of the pointer, a security feature that Apple uses in its software to make it difficult for the attackers to corrupt or inject malicious code into the memory of a device.
Apple launched a SOQUOIA MACOS SOFTWARE UPDATEUploading the software version to 15.4.1, and launched iOS 18.4.1 that corrects security errors in iPhones and iPads. Apple TV And the company’s mixed reality headphones PRO VISION He also received the same security updates.
