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Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cIn all these cases, root had been accessed on the affected system and a Monero crypto miner had been placed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you know if your screen sharing is on?<\/h2>\n

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, received a patch from Apple last week for macOS Tahoe<\/a>, Sequoia<\/a>, and Sonoma<\/a>. The vulnerability, with a severity rating of 7.1 out of 10, stems from a bug in the macOS screen sharing capability, which allows a remote party to view the screen and control the keyboard and mouse while a machine is turned on. A flaw in the \u201cstate management,\u201d which keeps track of preceding events, user interactions, variables, and other system states, is the underlying cause.<\/p>\n

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Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. \u201cThe 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,\u201d the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned earlier this week. \u201cIn all these cases, root had been accessed on the affected system…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"\nVulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation - 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