Security News > 2021 > January > Apple Patches Three Actively Exploited Zero-Days, Part of iOS Emergency Update

Apple continues to put out potential security fires by patching zero-day vulnerabilities, releasing an emergency update this week to patch three more recently discovered in iOS after a major software update in November already fixed three that were being actively exploited.

The newly patched bugs are part of a security update released Tuesday for iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4.

The most recent vulnerabilities apparently weren't known when Apple released iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, a comprehensive update that patched a total of 24 vulnerabilities back in November.

That update included fixes for three zero-day flaws discovered by the Google Project Zero team that were actively being exploited in the wild.

The proliferation of iPhones across the world makes news of any Apple iOS zero-day a security threat to its hundreds of millions of users, and thus a very big deal.

Predictably, numerous iPhone users, tech professionals and security experts took to Twitter as news of the latest spate of iOS zero-days broke to warn iPhone users to update their devices immediately.

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https://threatpost.com/apple-patches-zero-days-ios-emergency-update/163374/