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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape.

This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment.

Here are this week’s highlights:

Predator spyware suppresses iOS camera and microphone indicators

Predator spyware bypasses Apple’s recording indicators on iOS by installing a single hook to intercept and silently discard sensor activity updates before they trigger the orange or green status bar dots. This technique uses kernel-level access to modify thread state and exploit Objective-C nil messaging, effectively suppressing both camera and microphone indicators simultaneously ...