Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent
Image: The VergeJess WeatherbedCloseJess WeatherbedPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. Proof-of-concept attacks developed by Wardle to test the exploit enabled him to take pictures and write malicious files to disk via Muse, which did not alert the user in many cases.“We can manipulate the agent and leverage its privileges to do whatever we want.
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- ▪Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent.
- ▪Proof-of-concept attacks developed by Wardle to test the exploit enabled him to take pictures and write malicious files to disk via Muse, which did not alert the user in many cases.“We can manipulate the agent and leverage its privileges to
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