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Sead Fadilpašić

VR headsets could be hacked in "Inception-esque" attacks — with attackers able to steal your data without you even noticing

Meta Quest 3 headset .

If someone were to infect your Meta Quest VR headset with malware, they could trick you into seeing things in the virtual world which weren’t real, experts have warned.

Academics from Cornell University recently published a paper describing the possibility of hijacking people’s VR sessions and controlling their interactions with internal applications, external servers, and more. 

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