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FIRST PUBLIC MACOS KERNEL MEMORY CORRUPTION EXPLOIT ON APPLE M5

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Researchers successfully developed the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit targeting the new Apple M5 silicon despite its advanced hardware-based security features. This breach bypassed the Memory Integrity Enforcement system, a multi-billion-dollar defense mechanism designed over five years to make such memory-based attacks obsolete. However, Anthropic's Mythos Preview model was used to find and exploit these vulnerabilities in just five days.