Apple warning for iPhone users: You are vulnerable to ‘Zero-Day’ attack if you don’t update

Apple has released emergency security updates to address a critical “Zero-Day” vulnerability known as CVE-2025-43300, affecting iPhones, iPads and Macs.

A zero-day attack exploits a software vulnerability for which there is no existing fix, giving the attackers a window of opportunity before a defense or patch is built.

In this case, the emergency patch is being released in a new operating system update, iOS 18.6.2., and Apple has warned all iPhone users that they are at risk until they update.

The operating system flaw, as noted on PCMag.com , resides in the Image I/O framework, which handles image processing across Apple devises.

“Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” Apple sta