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  • Slashdot: Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ For Enterprise

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/2113251/red-teams-jailbreak-gpt-5-with-ease-warn-its-nearly-unusable-for-enterprise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ For Enterprise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights significant security vulnerabilities in the newly released GPT-5 model, noting that it was easily jailbroken within a short timeframe. The results from different red teaming efforts…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Cloud Blog: Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt41-innovative-tactics/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics Feedly Summary: Written by: Patrick Whitsell Google Threat Intelligence Group’s (GTIG) mission is to protect Google’s billions of users and Google’s multitude of products and services. In late October 2024, GTIG discovered an exploited government website hosting malware being used to target…

  • The Register: Malware in Lisp? Now you’re just being cruel

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/29/malware_obscure_languages/ Source: The Register Title: Malware in Lisp? Now you’re just being cruel Feedly Summary: Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a…

  • Slashdot: How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/23/2138230/how-ai-coding-assistants-could-be-compromised-via-rules-file?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security vulnerability in AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, highlighting how malicious rule configuration files can be used to inject backdoors and vulnerabilities in…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/11/new-xcsset-malware-adds-new-obfuscation-persistence-techniques-to-infect-xcode-projects/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects Feedly Summary: Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of XCSSET, a sophisticated modular macOS malware that infects Xcode projects, in the wild. Its first known variant since 2022, this latest XCSSET malware features…

  • Threat Research Archives – Unit 42: Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/malware-obfuscation-techniques/ Source: Threat Research Archives – Unit 42 Title: Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This article provides a detailed examination of sophisticated obfuscation techniques utilized by various malware families, specifically focusing on how these methods enhance the ability of malware to evade…

  • Cloud Blog: GoStringUngarbler: Deobfuscating Strings in Garbled Binaries

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/gostringungarbler-deobfuscating-strings-in-garbled-binaries/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GoStringUngarbler: Deobfuscating Strings in Garbled Binaries Feedly Summary: Written by: Chuong Dong Overview In our day-to-day work, the FLARE team often encounters malware written in Go that is protected using garble. While recent advancements in Go analysis from tools like IDA Pro have simplified the analysis process, garble…

  • Unit 42: Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=138493 Source: Unit 42 Title: Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization Feedly Summary: Malware authors use AES encryption and code virtualization to evade sandbox static analysis. We explore how this facilitates spread of Agent Tesla, XWorm and more. The post Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization appeared first on…