Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches

Apple and Google have both issued emergency patches after zero-day bugs were caught being actively exploited in what the companies describe as "sophisticated" real-world attacks.

Over the past few days, the two tech giants have rushed updates out the door to close vulnerabilities that attackers were already abusing against an unspecified number of targets, once again forcing users to patch first and ask questions later.

Apple pushed fresh security updates across much of its ecosystem, including iPhones, iPads, and Macs, fixing a pair of bugs in WebKit that it says may have been abused in an "extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals." As usual, Cupertino was light on technical detail, offering little more than a warning that the exploits were real and already in circulation.

Google, meanwhile, shipped a Chrome Stable channel update addressing multiple security flaws, including at least one zero-day that had already been exploited before a ...