Apple’s Zero-Day Drama: Patching Vulnerabilities Faster Than You Can Say ‘WebKit’
Apple’s latest updates tackle two zero-days impacting WebKit, the browser engine found in many of its products. These vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529, have been exploited in sophisticated attacks. The tech giant worked with Google’s Threat Analysis Group to uncover these issues, hinting at potential involvement by spyware vendors.
Hot Take:
Looks like Apple and Google are teaming up to fend off some cyber baddies, making it feel like an unexpected crossover episode of your favorite superhero shows. Just when you thought your MacBook and iPhone were safe in their shiny, aluminum capes, Apple swoops in to save the day with a double dose of zero-day patches! Who knew vulnerability patching could be so thrilling?
Key Points:
- Apple releases updates for macOS, iOS, and other operating systems to fix vulnerabilities, including two zero-days.
- The zero-days, CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529, are linked to WebKit and involve memory corruption and use-after-free issues.
- These vulnerabilities have been actively exploited in highly targeted attacks against specific individuals.
- Google’s mysterious Chrome zero-day now identified as CVE-2025-14174, affecting both Apple and Google products.
- Browsers like Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave are also affected due to their reliance on the Angle graphics library.
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