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Time to Patch: Apple Releases Fix for Zero-Day Attack Targeting Macs, iPhones

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Apple has released an emergency patch to fix two vulnerabilities that hackers exploited to target Intel -based Mac computers.

The previously unknown " zero-day " flaws led Apple to issue patches for macOS , iOS, and iPadOS.

The bugs involve a Mac , iPhone , or iPad processing "maliciously crafted web content" to trigger the operating system to execute rogue computer code.

Apple learned about the bugs from Google security researchers.

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