How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
2026-06-07T08:51:40Z•3d7b7248ca009914ff79e7fd28aa25b40c1e42ce9f9593cabaccc22a17e0a8ca
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What happened
The feed highlights a wave of high-impact security incidents and supply-chain attacks: a Sound Blaster USB speaker can be exploited over-the-air to infect connected PCs; Dashlane users had encrypted vaults mass-downloaded; Meta’s AI support chatbot was abused to hijack celebrity Instagram accounts; dozens of Red Hat packages were backdoored via its official NPM channel and Daemon Tools suffered a monthlong supply-chain compromise. Other major items include a 17M+ device botnet takedown, a critical “BadHost” flaw in the widely used Starlette package threatening AI agents, a zero-day that bypass
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- 2026-06-07T08:51:40Z
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- Yes
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