'Decades-old' bugs found affecting Windows, Android, macOS and Linux — but the OS makers don't see it as a big deal

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Graz University researchers found decades‐old flaws in file‐notification subsystems across Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android

Side‐channel attacks can infer keystrokes, visited websites, or even steal credentials via unprivileged access

Linux shipped partial mitigations (CVE‐2025‐68788); Microsoft and Apple acknowledged but did not patch, demo expected at ACM CCS 2026

Researchers have found a vulnerability in all major operating systems which could, in certain scenarios, allow threat actors to steal login credentials, or track which…