They came in on port 5900 and left with root: the miner was the least of it
In mid-August the Dutch cyber security centre warned that the macOS Screen Sharing flaw is being exploited on Macs with port 5900 open to the internet, and that in every reported case the attacker got root and left a Monero miner behind. Apple had already shipped the patch on 6 August. What exactly breaks in CVE-2026-65400, why classic hardening did not cover this hole, and the list almost no company has: what listens from outside.