This is very cool. Definitely seems like either an early or one-time, targeted attack by someone with good know-how and significant resources, even if it itself is not top-tier. Pretty cool find!
in my script kid days, ( 30 years ago ) I did something similar for linux , using raw sockets and I think with ETH_P_ALL. embedding into a an already existing regular linux process ( recompiling the source code ) the problem was high cpu usage of the process when network usage was intensive. of course it did't survive when the OS updated the program.
Nothing, because blackhat activity disqualifies itself from such a label. Recognition is actively withheld since it'd encourage some bad actors. Same reason malicious software is always given a different name even if one can be found in it.
Depends on the target, id consider something like Stuxnet to be top-notch given:
- Delivery
- Target resources (another state)
- Target defenses (I like to think that the iranians had good security)
- Stealthiness
- Target architecture. Its easier to write something for Android (for which we have the OS open sourced) than for siemens PLC
But as others say, you wouldn't want to advertise your exploit as top-notch, as it will bring unwanted attention
I want to make a public blacklist of people who pass off AI writing as their own words. In my view it is tantamount to fraud. It should be disclosed at the top of the page if AI was used.
I expect X units of information in Y words. Human writing delivers consistent amount of information per unit. I can bail out early. LLM writing ranges between X and 0. Typical addictive variable reward scheme.
I suppose I would, which is why I mentioned that while I had called it plagiarism, plagiarism (to me) seems like a subset of fraud. I wasn't trying to get in a discussion whether its fraud or not - either way I don't like it.
> That interpreter is not used just once. When a trigger later delivers a follow-up program, over any of the transports described further down, the exact same interpreter function runs it.
Very interesting, right? An interpreter that is not used just once. Because we all know about those one-time-use interpreters, but this one, is USED MULTIPLE TIMES.
/s
I bet this is Claude, and this is Anthropic’s fix for “it’s not X, it’s Y.”
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 11.1 ms ] threadBut as others say, you wouldn't want to advertise your exploit as top-notch, as it will bring unwanted attention
It looks pretty bespoke, so there are likely other variants.
Also targeting the anti-virus executable is a smart way to hide. I don't think this backdoor was cheap to develop.
This kind of useless sentence is what makes reading AI text so miserable
I don't think I used the word fraud, to me its plagiarism, but I suppose that's basically a subset of fraud.
The worst part is that the biggest offenders are often management.
Would you not consider this fraudulent?
> That interpreter is not used just once. When a trigger later delivers a follow-up program, over any of the transports described further down, the exact same interpreter function runs it.
Very interesting, right? An interpreter that is not used just once. Because we all know about those one-time-use interpreters, but this one, is USED MULTIPLE TIMES.
/s
I bet this is Claude, and this is Anthropic’s fix for “it’s not X, it’s Y.”