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An analyst's computer screen running AI-assisted malware analysis, code viewer suddenly displaying a nuclear threat image designed to trigger refusal responses,
AI Security

UAC-0099 Hides a Fake Nuclear Threat in Malware to Break AI Analysis Tools

A Russia-aligned group is stuffing malware with a shock prompt designed to make security analysts' AI assistants refuse to look at the code.

4 min read
A research lab workspace with malware analysis software displayed across multiple monitors, showing binary code and detection signatures, with a small portion o
Threat Intelligence

AI Malware Is Real. It Is Also Mostly Hype.

Palo Alto Networks studied 405 malware samples linked to AI tools. Only 12 ever reached a real computer, and existing defences caught every single one.

4 min read
Multiple AI model interfaces displayed side-by-side, each showing incomplete malware analysis chains with broken connections and missing conclusions, industrial
AI Security

Most AI Models Fail New Malware-Investigation Test Inspired by Nuclear Sabotage

A benchmark built around a real industrial-attack case shows that today's leading AI systems can't follow a malware investigation all the way to a conclusion.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Your Threat Feed Said One Thing. The Malware Said Another.

A former incident responder spent two years learning that intelligence reports, federal advisories, and foreign government bulletins share the same quiet flaw: the copy most people read is rarely the full story.

4 min read
Illustration: a sleek aluminum laptop on a dark desk
AI Security

Gaslight: A Rust macOS Stealer That Tries to Talk Your AI Analyst Out of Looking

The implant ships with an embedded prompt injection payload aimed at LLM-assisted reverse engineering tools, a small but telling escalation in adversarial tradecraft.

3 min read
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