Though information regarding the exploits is limited, the company did report that Intel-based Mac systems have been targeted by cybercriminals looking to exploit CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309.

In US Senate testimony, a CrowdStrike exec explained how this advanced persistent threat penetrated telcos in Asia and Africa, gathering SMS messages, unique identifiers, and other metadata along the way.

An elusive, sophisticated cybercriminal group has used known and zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise more than 20,000 SOHO routers and other IoT devices so far, and then puts them up for sale on a residential proxy marketplace for state-sponsored cyber-espionage actors and others to use.

Cybersecurity investigators found the leaked data to be information from a third party, not Ford itself, that is already accessible to the public and not sensitive in nature.

If the US wants to maintain its lead in cybersecurity, it needs to make the tough funding decisions that are demanded of it.