It was recently revealed that nearly all Intel processors, as well as AMD and ARM processors, are affected by the Meltdown and Spectre exploits. Apple has confirmed that their devices have been affected as well. It was noted that there are no known exploits impacting customers at the time.
The exploit in Apple products comes from the use of Intel processors in their devices. Apple has released some updates to defend against Meltdown and will be releasing an update to protect against Spectre soon.
“Since exploiting many of these issues requires a malicious app to be loaded on your Mac or iOS device, we recommend downloading software only from trusted sources such as the App Store. Apple has already released mitigations in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 to help defend against Meltdown. Apple Watch is not affected by Meltdown. In the coming days we plan to release mitigations in Safari to help defend against Spectre”
As previously noted, Meltdown and Spectre are two different vulnerabilities:
Apple will continue to monitor the exploits and release updates to mitigate their effectiveness.
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