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Google Researchers Detected Watering Hole Attacks Targeting Apple Devices

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) detected watering hole attacks targeting visitors to several Hong Kong websites. “The watering hole served an XNU privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-30869) unpatched in macOS Catalina, which led to the installation of a previously unreported backdoor.” Apple released a fix for the issue in September. Ref  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212825