Hidden Setting in Meta Muse Allows Attackers to Create Backdoors

…across their files, email, messages, calendar, shopping and smart-home apps, using whatever access the person chooses to give it. That access is the point, Wardle says. He urged people not to install Muse, calling it " trivial to turn Muse into the ultimate backdoor. " macOS normally prevents one app from accessing another app's files, microphone, camera, or saved logins, so ordinary malware is limited in what it can access. An attacker who can quietly steer Muse instead gets…