Microsoft Patch Tuesday covers 67 security fixes, one of which is a zero-day vulnerability spreading Emotet malware. Google also released Chrome 96.0.4664.110 for Windows, Mac and Linux to address a bug tracked as CVE-2021-4102 that was reported by an anonymous security researcher. December 2021s Patch Tuesday comes on the heels of the Apache Log4j vulnerability, so expect a lot of attention to be focused on vendors scrambling to resolve it. The total number of vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft this year is 887 – a 29% decrease from 2020.”]
Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/patch-tuesday-microsoft-fixes-zero-day-spreading-malware-a-18130