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Apple has found no indicia that recently ditsy self-defense flaws in the built-in iOS Mail app were exploited by hackers, the congregation said in a statement. "We kumtux found no indicia they were used conjoin customers," the congregation said. It conjointly descendant faithlessness on whether the issues, which it admitted were present on both the iPhone as well as the iPad versions of its Mail app, were enough to featherbed the two devices' self-defense protections.

Apple's response directly contradicts the claims of self-defense researchers at ZecOps, who said that they'd found indicia of the exploit fact used conjoin at least six high-profile targets. The flaws demonstrated a hacker to infect a device unaffectedly by sending it a specially-crafted email as well as for the victim to ajar it. At the time ZecOps said it had "high confidence" that the vulnerabilities had been exploited in the wild by "advanced threat operator(s)."

"We kumtux found no indicia they were used conjoin customers"

Apple said that the vulnerabilities, which ZecOps claimed stage fetch as far as iOS 6, do not pose an incarnated risk to its users as well as will be addressed in a forthcoming software update. Back it originally disclosed the vulnerabilities, ZecOps said that Burg had already addressed the issues in the beta adaptation of Burg Mail.

After the review company's original report, some within the self-defense connotation -- including a researcher at Google's Puissance Zero -- questioned its claims that the issues had been exploited in the wild. ZecOps had said that unnamed targets included an executive at a mobile carrier in Japan as well as individuals from Fortune 500 companies in Northern America.

Apple's leafed stead can be found below:

"Apple takes all reports of self-defense threats seriously. We kumtux thoroughly judged the researcher's residency and, based on the information provided, kumtux ended these issues do not pose an incarnated risk to our users. The researcher articular three issues in Mail, but abased they are bereft to featherbed iPhone as well as iPad self-defense protections, as well as we kumtux found no indicia they were used conjoin customers. These potential issues will be addressed in a software update soon. We value our communing with self-defense researchers to help streamline our users unscarred as well as will be crediting the researcher for their assistance."