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From mashable.com - April 26, 2021 5:48 PM

The latest version of Apple's macOS comes with more than just a slew of fancy new features. 

Buried inside macOS 11.3, which was released Monday morning, is a patch that fixes a critical vulnerability that was actively being exploited. This means that, yes, hackers or criminals or governments around the world were using this previously unreported bug for their own malicious ends. 

That's according to Patrick Wardle, creator of the Mac security website and tool suite Objective-See. In a blog post timed to coincide with the release of macOS 11.3, Wardle explains just how serious the now-patched vulnerability is.

"This bug trivially bypasses many core Apple security mechanisms, leaving Mac users at grave risk," he writes. 

Worryingly, Wardle and Jamf, a company that makes Apple management software for enterprise customers, were able to detect real malware exploiting this bug in the wild. 

We reached out to Apple to both confirm Wardle's report and that macOS 11.3 contains a patch for this specific vulnerability. An Apple spokesperson confirmed that the latest version of macOS does include a fix for the underlying issues. 

 

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