How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
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What happened
Ars Technica's security feed highlights a wave of high-impact incidents: a USB/USB-C-connected Sound Blaster Katana V2X speaker can be remotely abused to infect attached PCs; Dashlane users had encrypted vaults exfiltrated at scale; Meta's AI support chatbot was tricked into handing over high-value Instagram accounts; dozens of Red Hat packages were backdoored via an official NPM channel; a critical 'BadHost' vulnerability was found in the widely used Starlette package; Google published exploit code for Chromium before a patch; and a zero-day bypass was reported that defeats default Windows 11
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- arstechnica_security
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- 2026-06-06T20:51:44Z
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- Yes
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