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Christian Guyton

Apple admits the iPhone 12 and M2 MacBook Air have a concerning security flaw – but don’t panic

A hacker in a Guy Fawkes mask using an Apple MacBook.

Earlier this week, the TechRadar Pro team reported on a serious security flaw affecting millions of GPUs from Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm – and today, Apple has officially confirmed that some of its products are indeed affected.

So far, Apple has stated that the iPhone 12 and M2 MacBook Air are affected, but it’s likely older Apple products still hold the vulnerability; the researchers at Trail of Bits who originally uncovered the security flaw noted that the recently-released iPhone 15 and M3 MacBook Pro seem to have been patched to remove the issue, but there’s no concrete list of which products are currently still affected.

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