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Mobile security company Zimperium has released its annual mobile threat report where security trends and discoveries in the year that passed lay the groundwork for predicting what's coming in 2022. In 2021, actors focused more on remote workforce or on-premise mobile devices, leading to increased malicious network scans and man-in-the-middle attacks.

How to add notes to iCloud passwords in macOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4. Now, with iOS 15.4 and macOS 12.3, Apple has added another feature to iCloud Keychain: Notes.

iOS users: Patch now to avoid falling prey to this WebKit vulnerability. iOS users may have noticed an unexpected software update on their devices yesterday, and Apple is urging everyone to install that update immediately to avoid falling prey to a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's device.

Another month, another zero-day exploited in the wild that has been fixed by Apple. Apple fixed it in iOS 15.3.1 and iPadOS 15.3.1, macOS Monterey 12.2.1, and Safari 15.3.

Apple on Thursday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari to address a new WebKit flaw that it said may have been actively exploited in the wild, making it the company's third zero-day patch since the start of the year. Tracked as CVE-2022-22620, the issue concerns a use-after-free vulnerability in the WebKit component that powers the Safari web browser and could be exploited by a piece of specially crafted web content to gain arbitrary code execution.

Microsoft says threat and vulnerability management support for Android and iOS has reached general availability in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the company's enterprise endpoint security platform."Threat and vulnerability management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint continuously monitors and identifies impacted devices, assesses associated risks in the environment, and provides intelligent prioritization and integrated workflows to seamlessly remediate vulnerabilities."

Tracked as CVE-2022-22587, the vulnerability relates to a memory corruption issue in the IOMobileFrameBuffer component that could be abused by a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The iPhone maker said it's "Aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited," adding it addressed the issue with improved input validation.

Apple has released security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities, with one publicly disclosed and the other exploited in the wild by attackers to hack into iPhones and Macs. The first zero-day patched today [1, 2] is a memory corruption bug in the IOMobileFrameBuffer that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Monterey.

Microsoft says zero-touch onboarding for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS is now available in public preview, allowing enterprise admins to silently install Defender for Endpoint automatically on enrolled devices. "With this new capability, enterprises can now deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS devices that are enrolled with Microsoft Endpoint Manager automatically, without needing end-users to interact with the app," Microsoft explained.

Historically, when malware infects an iOS device, it can be removed simply by restarting the device, which clears the malware from memory. When an iPhone is shut off, its screen naturally goes dark, the camera is turned off, 3D touch feedback does not respond to long presses, sounds from calls and notifications are muted, and all vibrations are absent.