The defect, which affects the company’s most popular devices, has been exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” Apple said.

The company released a host of security patches Monday, including ones that address two zero-day vulnerabilities.

The zero-day impacts Apple’s framework that manages audio and video playback.

Researchers can’t tell if the malware was used in a campaign, or North Korean operatives were caught before they could deploy it in the wild.

Apple's grappling with another flaw.

Researchers at Trend Micro say a newly discovered MacOS backdoor uses tactics previously associated with the group known as APT32 or OceanLotus.

One team used the calculator app in a macOS as an entrypoint into taking over an entire machine.

A fix for the FaceTime bug is expected to ship to all users within the next week.

"Patch early and often?" Not so much.

Chinese contestants from major companies had been dominating the contest in recent years, but new regulations from Beijing prohibited them from joining this year's fray.