Apple and a Hacker's Future
A high-severity vulnerability in macOS screen sharing, CVE-2026-65400, has been exploited to install crypto miners on remote systems. Apple has released a patch for the flaw, which allows unauthorized remote access to a machine's keyboard and mouse.
Why it matters
This underscores the critical importance of timely software updates and the persistent threat of remote code execution vulnerabilities in widely used operating systems.
My computer got hacked; the vulnerability that was exploited is detailed in this Ars Technica story :
Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems on which port 5900 was accessible from the Internet,” the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned earlier this week. “In all these cases, root had been accessed on the affected system and a Monero crypto miner had been placed.”
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