Security News > 2020 > April > Apple Pushes Back Against Zero-Day Exploit Claims

Apple has pushed back against claims that two zero-day bugs in its iPhone iOS have been exploited for years, saying it's found no evidence to support such activity.

Apple officials made the statement in response to a widely disseminated report published Wednesday by ZecOps, which claimed that two Apple iOS zero-day security vulnerabilities affecting its Mail app on iPhones and iPads already had been exploited in the wild since 2018 by an "Advanced threat operator."

Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg's Apple correspondent Mark Gurman that he posted on Twitter that this is just not true.

Over April 15 and 16, Apple began making a patch available to mitigate the security flaws in its publicly available beta software.

Apple did not address ZecOps claims that it worked with the company to identify the flaws, but did stress that it depends on its joint efforts with security researchers to identify flaws in its products to protect user security.

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