Government has found serious security flaw in iPhone, Mac and other Apple devices, here’s what you should do right now

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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) has issued a new warning for iPhone, Macs, iPads and other Apple products. The government agency has found multiple security flaws in the operating systems that power these devices and has highlighted that attackers can gain elevated access to these devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within these operating systems.

Operating systems affected

. Apple iOS versions prior to 18 and iPadOS versions prior to 18

. Apple iOS versions prior to 17.7 and iPadOS versions prior to 17

. Apple macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7

. Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7

. Apple macOS Sequoia versions prior to 15

. Apple tvOS versions prior to 18

. Apple watchOS versions prior to 11

. Apple Safari versions prior to 18

. Apple Xcode versions prior to 16

. Apple visionOS versions prior to 2

What’s the warning

CERT-In has classified the security vulnerabilities found as “High” Severity. The government body has mentioned, “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple products which could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, cause denial of service (DoS) conditions, bypass authentication, gain elevated privileges and perform spoofing attacks on the targeted system”.

Why you should be worried

According to the report, the security flaws in these operating systems can allow attackers to gain access to the sensitive information stored in the device including banking details, passwords, addresses, etc. They can use this to bypass security restrictions and cause denial of services on the system.

What you can do

Security flaws have been found within certain versions of the Apple operating system. Apple has already started rolling out the latest versions of the OSes that include fixes for the vulnerabilities found within the systems.

All you must do is download and install the latest version of the operating system on their devices.