Apple zero-day exploits patched: Why you should update your iPhones, iPads immediately

Apple recently released a security update that fixes several severe zero-day vulnerabilities affecting devices running iOS and iPadOS. For the uninitiated, a zero-day exploit is a security loophole which developers have not been aware of, and hence, haven’t been patched.

The tech giant confirmed that it was aware of these vulnerabilities and that they might have been exploited by hackers to target active users. According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in note CIVN-2022-0408, an attacker could leverage the vulnerability to gain unauthorised access to sensitive information, spoof interface addresses, execute arbitrary code and cause denial of service attacks on the targeted system.