Apple offers Mac OS X update to close one flaw

Swedish government-owned liquor retailer Systembolaget, which is the country's lone vendor of alcoholic beverages, has warned of a shortage of some beers, wines, and spirits across the country following a ransomware attack against its distributor Skanlog, which its CEO Mona Zuko has attributed to a North Korean state-sponsored threat operation, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Volt Typhoon and other Chinese cyberespionage operations were noted by FBI Director Christopher Wray to be already gearing up for far-reaching disruptive intrusions against U.S. critical infrastructure by 2027 should the U.S. interfere with China's conflict with Taiwan, according to CyberScoop.

Threat actors could potentially launch a software supply chain attack by exploiting a dependency confusion flaw impacting the archived Apache Cordova App Harness project, which had been discontinued five years ago, reports The Hacker News.