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Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner (thehackernews.com)
submitted 2 days ago by halezinflames@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Well I guess I'm eating crow for suggesting MacOS was secure. JESUS lmfao, this one is nasty.

"Would Rust have solved this" oops, nope

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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How are people idiots for screen sharing with zoom and getting hacked by something even Apple did not know about?

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

[…] screen sharing with zoom

It’s a bit more nuanced than that and most casual users likely are not vulnerable to this exploit:

[…] requires the target Mac to have Screen Sharing or Remote Management enabled with "VNC viewers may control screen with password" configured and the attacker is already in possession of that VNC password

Regardless, victim blaming is still lame