{"id":214581,"date":"2026-02-12T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/apple-discloses-first-actively-exploited-zero-day-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:00:11","slug":"apple-discloses-first-actively-exploited-zero-day-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/apple-discloses-first-actively-exploited-zero-day-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/apple-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2026-20700\/\">Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/apple-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2026-20700\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/apple-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2026-20700\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 18:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple disclosed a zero-day vulnerability Wednesday that the vendor warned was previously \u201cexploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,\u201d the company said in a security update.<\/p>\n<p>The memory-corruption vulnerability \u2014 CVE-2026-20700 \u2014 affects iPhones and iPads and was exploited on devices running versions of iOS before iOS 26. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the defect to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure marks the first zero-day reported by Apple since late 2025, and the first Apple defect flagged as actively exploited by CISA this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, which typically shares limited details about in-the-wild exploitation of zero-days, noted the latest zero-day, similar to others it disclosed last year, was exploited by sophisticated attackers targeting distinct people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment and did not describe the nature or objectives of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Condon, vice president of security research at VulnCheck, said the zero-day was likely exploited as part of a highly targeted spyware or surveillance attack on a very small number of individuals\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n<p>The zero-day vulnerability, which was discovered by Google Threat Intelligence Group, affects dyld, Apple\u2019s open-source dynamic link editor that acts as a core system component to securely load applications on users\u2019 devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple said a pair of additional vulnerabilities affecting WebKit \u2014 CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529 \u2014 were previously disclosed in response to attacks involving CVE-2026-20700.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company did not describe how the three vulnerabilities are related, but previously noted CVE-2025-43529 was \u201cexploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/apple-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2026-20700\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026 https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/apple-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2026-20700\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-12 18:49:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-495316169.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,27],"class_list":["post-214581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214583,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214581\/revisions\/214583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}