{"id":17836,"date":"2026-08-17T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:47:27","slug":"vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-management-of-macs-is-underneath-energetic-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=17836","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability giving attackers full management of Macs is underneath energetic exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/macbook-pro-1152x648.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dutch officers have warned {that a} high-severity macOS vulnerability that permits attackers to execute malicious code is underneath energetic exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NCSC has obtained a notification indicating that energetic abuse of this vulnerability has been noticed on a number of techniques on which port 5900 was accessible from the Web,\u201d the Netherlands Nationwide Cyber Safety Centrum <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/advisories.ncsc.nl\/2026\/ncsc-2026-0280.html\">warned<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cIn all these circumstances, root had been accessed on the affected system and a Monero crypto miner had been positioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Have you learnt in case your display screen sharing is on?<\/h2>\n<p>The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, obtained a patch from Apple final week for macOS <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/148170\">Tahoe<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/148171\">Sequoia<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/148172\">Sonoma<\/a>. The vulnerability, with a severity ranking of seven.1 out of 10, stems from a bug within the macOS display screen sharing functionality, which permits a distant social gathering to view the display screen and management the keyboard and mouse whereas a machine is turned on. A flaw within the \u201cstate administration,\u201d which retains monitor of previous occasions, person interactions, variables, and different system states, is the underlying trigger.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/08\/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-exploitation\/\">Learn full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/08\/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-exploitation\/#comments\">Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch officers have warned {that a} high-severity macOS vulnerability that permits attackers to execute malicious code is underneath energetic exploitation. \u201cThe NCSC has obtained a notification indicating that energetic abuse of this vulnerability has been noticed on a number of techniques on which port 5900 was accessible from the Web,\u201d the Netherlands Nationwide Cyber Safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[768,1629,848,2036,1813,5808,5935,1061],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-active","tag-attackers","tag-control","tag-exploitation","tag-full","tag-giving","tag-macs","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17837,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions\/17837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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