Indian Government Warns Apple Users of High-Security Threat

To avoid potential hacks, update to the latest Apple OS. Here are the specifics.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN), a part of the Government of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, occasionally alerts consumers to vulnerabilities discovered in various product lines.

CERT-IN's latest advisory alerts Apple customers to various high-severity vulnerabilities discovered in Apple products. These issues affect many software versions on various Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

These users are affected:
The warning issue affects users running iOS versions prior to 18.6, iPadOS versions prior to 17.9.9 and 18.6, macOS Sequoia versions prior to 15.6, macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7.7, macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7.7, watchOS versions prior to 11.6, tvOS versions prior to 18.6, and visionOS versions prior to 2.6.

What are the risks, and what you should do :
There are various risks associated with not updating to the latest versions. CERT-IN reports that various vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple devices, including type confusion, use-after-free issues, out-of-bounds memory access, integer overflows, buffer overflows, race situations, and others.

Finally, if you are using outdated software versions, an attacker may exploit these vulnerabilities and target you. A successful hacker may be able to access sensitive data, run arbitrary code, overcome security constraints, and even cause denial-of-service problems on targeted devices by sending specially designed requests to them.

Simply put, it is not a desirable scenario to be in; you may have to deal with data loss and theft, which will be quite costly. As a result, it is in your best interest to update to the most recent Apple software that addresses these vulnerabilities. This will protect you from the threats listed above.