Yurts founder and CEO Ben Van Roo breaks down concerns over DeepSeek on'The Will Cain Show.' Apple devices are believed to be pretty secure, and that's what the company will tell you. You might have seen the tagline "Privacy. However, the tech landscape is changing, and even Apple products aren't beyond cybercriminals' reach. A new report suggests Mac users will need to be more vigilant this year because AI advancements are helping hackers breach even the most secure systems. I have consistently reported on how Mac malware is targeting users, and experts now believe this will only get worse.

Artificial intelligence is alerting and Mac malware is diverting, but first: a cartoon about baby privacy. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? On January 9, the World Health Organization notified the public of a flu-like outbreak in Wuhan, China, that led to city lockdowns affecting tens of millions of people. But a Canadian health monitoring platform sent news of the outbreak to its customers more than a week earlier, on December 31.

Unlike in the pre-internet era, when trading in the stock or commodities market involved a phone call to a broker -- a move which often meant additional fees for would-be traders -- the rise of trading apps placed the ability to trade in the hands of ordinary users. However, their popularity has led to their abuse by cybercriminals who create fake trading apps as lures for unsuspecting victims to steal their personal data. We recently found and analyzed an example of such an app, which had a malicious malware variant that disguised itself as a legitimate Mac-based trading app called Stockfolio. We found two variants of the malware family. The first one contains a pair of shell scripts and connects to a remote site to decrypt its encrypted codes while the second sample, despite using a simpler routine involving a single shell script, actually incorporates a persistence mechanism.