Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones

2026-06-19T19:24:00Zf563d5c1d780c2890e46d126f2acd41cabe3514ea4ed78aad9c732c9ec25dbef
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What happened

A broad set of high-impact security stories: researchers released a checkm8-style SecureROM/BootROM exploit affecting A12/A13 iPhones (unpatchable on existing hardware), multiple mass-exploitation incidents and zero-days are active (75k Fortinet firewalls hit by a password-stealing campaign; three critical Fortinet sandbox bugs being exploited; Cisco SD‑WAN/Catalyst SD‑WAN Manager make-me-root vulnerability exploited as a 0-day; ShinyHunters abusing an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day against 100+ orgs; Windows BitLocker bypass 0-day published). Other notable items include Microsoft Surface hardware br

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2026-06-19T19:24:00Z
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