Researchers found a way to hijack devices through Zoom screen sharing
2026-08-12T20:51:38Z•8c06c862ab0bc87a76b2da551d407ec5c417c041702753567ec3492d748a3c26
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What happened
Ars Technica security feed covering active exploitation of enterprise software flaws, server backdoors, supply-chain and email-domain risks, phishing and fake-hotspot attacks, account-takeover defenses, AI-assisted cyberattacks, ransomware, surveillance, and cryptographic research. The most severe reported items involve a max-severity Microsoft Exchange flaw exploited by Kremlin-linked actors and motherboard controller vulnerabilities enabling persistent server compromise; individual article details and CVE identifiers are not provided in the feed.
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