Apple has released an urgent security update after confirming that a zero-day vulnerability in its operating system was exploited in what the company called an 'extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.'
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20700, is the first actively exploited zero-day Apple has disclosed in 2026, and it sat undetected inside every iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV for nearly 20 years.
