Unpatchable 'usbliter8' Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain
2026-06-19T19:24:10Z•43414793af65c5c7e855070d645d8246fe008d9beeaf081ce952ea8728175860
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What happened
A broad set of high-impact security stories: researchers published an unpatchable usbliter8 exploit that achieves arbitrary code execution in Apple A12/A13 SecureROM; Microsoft disclosed a Defender elevation-of-privilege zero-day (CVE-2026-50656) with a patch in development; CISA warned of active exploitation of Joomla JCE (CVE-2026-48907) and urged Fortinet customers amid a large FortiBleed campaign affecting tens of thousands of FortiGate devices. F5 patched critical NGINX flaws (including CVE-2026-42530), Apple fixed Beats Studio Buds eavesdropping (CVE-2025-20701), and many other incidents
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