Scary new malware secretly takes screenshots of macOS computers, but there’s a fix

bgrpro65 mai 26, 2021

At this point, we are running out of ways to tell you to keep all of your software up to date on every device you own, but yet another major vulnerability has been uncovered, so we'll say it again anyway: Update every piece of software on all of your devices.

The reason we felt the need to issue this alert again is because Apple patched a zero-day exploit in macOS Big Sur with the 11.4 update this week that reportedly could have allowed hackers to secretly take screenshots of your computer screen without your permission. As the security researchers at the software company Jamf explained in a blog post, the scary exploit (CVE-2021-30713) bypassed Apple's Transparency Consent and Control (TCC) framework, which controls the resources that an application has access to, such as giving webcam and microphone access to Zoom.