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New Wi-Fi Takeover Attack—All Windows Users Warned To Update Now (www.forbes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/windows@sopuli.xyz

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The full details of how it works will probably not be public yet in order to protect people who haven't had a chance to patch yet

It's a zero user input, remote code execution exploit that doesn't require direct physical access—that pretty much means anyone with WiFi is at risk until they patch

[–] sporks_a_plenty@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Agreed.

The exploit was discovered by a security research firm who did the right thing and reported it to the SW creator, giving them the opportunity to distribute a patch.

Since it hasn't yet been reported as being exploited "in the wild" publishing details on how to perform the exploit would be at best negligent, and worst carelessly malicious.