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Update your Mac: Screen Sharing vulnerability exploited in the wild

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning after being notified of several incidents where a vulnerability in Apple’s Screen Sharing feature was exploited to install Monero cryptominers . The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-65400 , was patched by Apple on August 6. It is an authentication-bypass flaw in macOS Screen Sharing that can let an attacker on the network connect without valid credentials. macOS’s built-in Screen Sharing service is a remote-control feature commonly associated with port 5900. Successful exploitation can allow a remote attacker on a reachable network to authenticate to the service without legitimate credentials. Apple said the bug was fixed through “improved state management,” which suggests an authentication-flow or session-state validation…

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Aug 17, 2026
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