Patrick Wardle
Patrick Wardle is a security researcher who focuses on macOS vulnerabilities. His recent work has exposed a hidden preference in Meta’s Muse assistant that can be altered to redirect voice dictation to an attacker‑controlled endpoint, and he publicly disclosed a zero‑day flaw in the Muse AI agent, prompting Meta to issue a hot‑fix.
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Meta’s Muse leaks internal files via prompt injection, developers say
Two developers independently extracted Muse’s entire filesystem—including Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation—using simple prompts. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders found Muse generated…
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Meta's Muse surpasses ChatGPT in early US iOS downloads
Meta's AI agent Muse reached approximately 730,000 US iOS downloads in its first ten days, according to Sensor Tower estimates, outpacing ChatGPT's 697,000 US downloads in its first eight days in 2023. Muse climbed to…
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Security researcher shows hidden Muse setting could let attackers turn Muse into backdoor
Security researcher Patrick Wardle released a proof‑of‑concept on September 21 showing that a hidden preference in Meta's Muse assistant for macOS can be changed to redirect voice dictation to an attacker‑controlled…
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Security researcher discloses zero-day in Meta's Muse AI agent; Meta hot-fixes flaw
Security researcher Patrick Wardle publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse AI agent on September 21, 2026, demonstrating that an unprivileged local process on macOS could redirect the app's dictation…
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Patrick Wardle is a security researcher who focuses on macOS vulnerabilities. His recent work has exposed a hidden preference in Meta’s Muse assistant that can be altered to redirect voice dictation to an attacker‑controlled endpoint, and he publicly disclosed a zero‑day flaw in the Muse AI agent, prompting Meta to issue a hot‑fix.
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Meta’s Muse leaks internal files via prompt injection, developers say (24 September 2026).