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Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

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262 points fortran77 | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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acdha ◴[20 Nov 24 00:43 UTC] No.42189685[source]▶
Interesting that they’re mentioned as only being exploited on Intel. Has anyone seen whether that’s because the attacker only targeted that platform or is it actually stopped by something like pointer protection?
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justinclift ◴[20 Nov 24 01:02 UTC] No.42189809[source]▶
Doesn't seem to completely line up that they're rushing out iOS updates (ie for phones, etc) for something they're saying they've only confirmed on Intel cpus.

Unless they're assuming it's exploitable on Apple Silicon as well, or are being extra careful just in case.

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2muchcoffeeman ◴[20 Nov 24 01:16 UTC] No.42189876[source]▶
There must be millions of Intel Macs still around. Why wouldn’t they update it?
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1. shepherdjerred ◴[20 Nov 24 01:18 UTC] No.42189894[source]▶
The parent comment said that Apple is rushing iOS updates. iOS is the operating system for iPhones which use Apple Silicon rather than Intel processors.