Dream Heist Disaster: “Inception Attack” Exposes Terrifying VR Vulnerability

Dive headfirst into the ‘inception attack’—a hacker’s dream technique for turning your VR paradise into a virtual vault heist. It’s no sci-fi flick; it’s a reality check for Meta Quest users!

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Move over, DiCaprio, there's a new dreamwalker in town, and this one's armed with a virtual reality headset and a Wi-Fi connection. In a plot twist worthy of a cyberpunk thriller, researchers have put on their hacker hats and demonstrated that the line between VR and reality is about as sturdy as a wet paper firewall. Sure, Meta's VR system was supposed to be an escape from reality, but now it seems reality is the escape from VR! Time to suit up, Neo—the (virtual) matrix has you.

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