Security News > 2021 > September > Apple patches new zero-day bug used to hack iPhones and Macs
Apple has released security updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild by attackers to hack into iPhones and Macs running older iOS and macOS versions.
The zero-day patched today [1, 2] was found in the XNU operating system kernel and was reported by Erye Hernandez and Clément Lecigne of Google Threat Analysis Group, and Ian Beer of Google Project Zero.
"Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited," Apple said when describing the zero-day bug.
Apple also backported security updates for two previously patched zero-days, one of them reported by The Citizen Lab and used to deploy NSO Pegasus spyware on hacked devices.
Two zero-days earlier this month, one of them used also used to install Pegasus spyware on iPhones,.
Two iOS zero-day bugs in June that "May have been actively exploited" to hack into older iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices.
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