Apple users in India are being warned about a major hacking risk by the Indian government and they need to take notice immediately. The new security risk has been issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) with a high severity rating which tells you the importance of the alert and how millions of users need to be careful. The security issue is really big because it affects major parts of Apple devices, including iPhones and Macs.

CERT-In Warning For Apple Users: What It Says

The security risk facing Apple devices is at a large scale this month and the bulletin from CERT-In clearly illustrates that. “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple products due to null pointer dereference, type confusion error, use after free error, out-of-bounds read, out-of-bounds write, handling of files, Parsing a file, input validation, user-sensitive data, race condition, buffer overflow, path handling flaws."

These issues are serious enough as hackers can exploit the vulnerability in your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to bypass the device security and manipulate data and attack these devices to steal information.

Apple CERT-In Alert For January 2025: Which Devices Are At Risk

– Apple macOS Sequoia versions prior to 15.3

– Apple macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7.3

– Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7.3

– Apple iPadOS versions prior to 17.7.4

– Apple iOS versions prior to 18.3

– Apple iPadOS versions prior to iOS 18.3

– Apple tvOS Versions prior to 18.3

– Apple visionOS Versions prior to 2.3

– Apple Safari Versions prior to 18.3

– Apple watchOS versions prior to 11.3

The Apple software versions affected by the security issue includes the latest devices like the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and even the Vision Pro headset. You also have a range of iPad and iPad Pro models mentioned within the list with their respective software versions.

If your Apple device is running on iOS, macOS or iPadOS versions before the ones given here, we highly recommend you to quickly update to the new available version from the company. You can head over to Settings – General – Software update and install the new version before your device is affected by these security risks.