Advisory: Please update all Apple products

Security Operations Advisory

Cyber Alerts & Notifications

Description:

Apple, on Wednesday released iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with fixes for both the privacy-defeating bug in Safari, as well as to contain a zero-day flaw, which is actively being exploited in the wild to break into devices. Scanning activity has already been observed targeting Western’s networks that appears to be related to these vulnerabilities. Updating Apple devices to the latest available software version fixes all current known vulnerabilities and WTS advises urgency in your efforts. Please share this information and urgency with all users in your units.

Vendor:

APPLE

Versions Affected:

• Apple iOS/iPadOS prior to 15.3
• MacOS versions prior to 12.2

References:

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213053 - Apple iOS/iPadOS
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054 - MacOS

Mitigations:

• Update Apple iOS/iPadOS to 15.3
• Update MacOS to 12.2