Update your iPhone and iPad now to fix the security flaw

If you have an iPhone or iPad, update them now. Apple only announce The newly discovered zero-day vulnerability affects a large number of the company’s phones and tablets, which may be “actively exploited” by cybercriminals.

The patch comes with the latest updates from the company for its lines from Iphone and iPad, iOS 15.0.2 and iPadOS 15.0.2. Emergency Safety Announcement published Monday notes that the vulnerability affects the following devices: “iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation)”.

The bug lies with IOMobileFrameBuffer for devices and the company has shared that if exploited correctly, attackers can use it to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges on target devices, which means they can basically hijack your phone or tablet and do whatever you want with them. This can include things like injecting malware or stealing your data, things no one wants to happen to.

Apple says the zero-day vulnerability was discovered by an “anonymous investigator,” but it didn’t provide many details about who they would target via this flaw, or how it was discovered. They named it CVE-2021-30883.

While it’s not entirely clear that this security flaw is being actively exploited, it’s also not clear that it isn’t, and we shouldn’t wait to find out. Not updating your devices regularly is the easiest and worst way to compromise your data and security. Online; So update now to stay protected.

Apple had to release several of these updates this year: register Indicates that today’s update is the seventeenth zero-day patch designed for Apple products in 2021. Previous big update Arrived in September When the company announced an emergency security update for a vulnerability that was said to have left 1.65 billion devices vulnerable through spyware for months.