Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/apple-macos-screen-sharing-flaw.html
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
Oh, it’s already been patched. Ok.
MacOs’ greatest strength against malware was a small install base.
Same with Linux
I’m really worried for the future if we don’t get our shit together (AUR malware already proves what kind of damage these people can do)
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Especially now with AI agents discovering vulnerabilities at a pretty insane pace
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It is really scary navigating, but I’m hoping being careful is still enough for most of what I do.
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Yeah hopefully you’re right. Just a lot of scary reports all around compounded with threats I have already received personally.
Who in their right mind is exposing them directly to the internet? Poorly configured routers to blame here I assume?
I haven’t seen full details on this yet but I’m curious how much of this is UPnP type situations. Routers have been doing much better with it being disabled by default compared to past however.
Good for the Monero miner.
They can earn some money off of idiots.
How are people idiots for screen sharing with zoom and getting hacked by something even Apple did not know about?
It’s a bit more nuanced than that and most casual users likely are not vulnerable to this exploit:
Regardless, victim blaming is still lame