Apple Warns Users in 110 Countries of Mercenary Spyware as iPhone Alerts Get Harder to Miss
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TechRepublic security coverage reports mercenary spyware targeting users, government spyware oversight, macOS malware capable of browser-session hijacking, major data breaches, ransomware and DDoS activity, zero-day and zero-click exploitation risks, software supply-chain abuse, credential theft, phishing and scam defenses, and large-scale vulnerability patching. The most urgent items include an actively exploited Microsoft zero-day, high-severity remote-code-execution flaws, Zoom zero-click RCE research, Gunra ransomware, and malware targeting passwords, cookies, payment data, developer data,
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