There were eight novel macOS malware families last year, including CDDS, ElectroRAT, ElectrummStealer, SilverSparrow, WildPressure, XLoader, XcodeSpy, and ZuRu.
Millions of Tenda, Netgear, Western Digital, TP-Link, D-Link, and EDiMAX end-user routers are being affected by a high-severity buffer overflow vulnerability in the KCodes NetUSB component, a Linux kernel module allowing local network-connected devices to offer USB-based services.
Thirty-three percent of Americans experienced one or more cyberattacks last year, nearly half of whom were victimized by phishing attacks, as cybersecurity incidents across the U.S. rose by 27%, compared with 2020.
Microsoft has warned that malicious actors could obtain unauthorized access to protected macOS user data by exploiting the powerdir vulnerability, which evades transparency, consent, and control technology.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Allen Giltman of California has entered a guilty plea for his involvement in a widespread internet fraud scheme that enabled the exfiltration of nearly $50 million between 2012 and October 2020.
A joint federal alert urges critical infrastructure entities to be on high alert, as Russian-backed advanced persistent threat actors (APT) continue to target these networks, including those in healthcare.
Threat actors could exploit a security flaw in the email system of ride-hailing service Uber to send emails to 57 million Uber drivers and users whose data were compromised in a 2016 data breach.
While China is not expected to reach the same levels of quantum computing as the US and Europe by the middle of the decade, it may get ahead in terms of attaining limited quantum computing use cases, and Chinese threat groups are poised to continue targeting Western quantum computing research to ensure the advancement of the country's capabilities.