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Emergency Fixes Deployed by Google and Apple After Targeted Attacks
**In a coordinated effort to safeguard their users, both Google and Apple have issued emergency updates to address zero-day flaws exploited in highly targeted attacks. The cyberattacks, which appear to involve nation-state actors and commercial spyware vendors, aimed at specific high-value individuals rather than mass exploitation.
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The campaign is shrouded in mystery, with an unknown number of users affected by the sophisticated attack.
**Details on the extent of the damage are scarce, but what is clear is that both Google and Apple have taken swift action to plug the security holes. This week, Google patched several Chrome bugs, including one actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, discovered by a joint effort between Apple's security team and Google's Threat Analysis Group – which tracks state-sponsored actors – was initially withheld from public disclosure due to ongoing investigations.
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However, it soon became evident that the bug was likely used in a targeted espionage campaign rather than random cybercrime.
**Apple has also released updates for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more, addressing two WebKit flaws (CVE-2025-14174, CVE-2025-43529) believed to have been exploited in targeted iOS 26 attacks. According to Apple's advisory: **
"Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26."
**While neither Google nor Apple has provided further information on the attacks, it's clear that these efforts are part of a larger strategy to protect their users from increasingly sophisticated threats.
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