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Open in the map ↗676 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. Recent momentum: steady. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Speculative Reward Hacking in Coding Agents ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Mission-Bound Authorization for OAuth 2.0 ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
SagarBiswas-MultiHAT/The-BlackHAT-roadmap ↗
The complete hacking & penetration testing roadmap. From beginner to elite. 44,982 lines across the roadmap: OPSEC, web security, Active Directory, binary exploitation, EDR evasion, and 0-day research. 300+ tools, 200+ MITRE techniques, C & Rust payloads, lab guides, books, courses, blogs, practice platforms, and AI security resources.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Ask HN: How are you conforming to EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) reporting rules? ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business' ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
goosehouse-llc/redde ↗
iPhone, iPad and CarPlay client for the Hermes AI agent or any OpenAI-compatible model. Talk or type, watch it work, approve what it runs. No account, no tracking.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
From Source Code to Network Profile: Automated and Traceable MUD Profile Generation for IoT Devices ↗
The Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) standard allows IoT manufacturers to define expected network behaviors in a MUD file. This file can be translated into enforceable access-control policies, restricting compromised devices to operate solely through manufacturer-defined communication patterns. However, practical adoption of MUD depends on profiles that are accurate, complete, and maintainable. Existing approaches use traffic-based automation but require device deployment and prolonged monitoring, capturing only behavior exercised during observation. Rare, failure-triggered, or configurati…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Configuration, Not Conscience: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of LLM System Prompts ↗
Leaked system prompts are often treated as windows into the hidden values of commercial language models, yet their composition is rarely studied at scale. We analyze a merged corpus of 407 leaked, reconstructed, or officially published system prompts from 62 vendors across four community collections, identifying 29 near-duplicate clusters covering 66 files. Operational content rather than ethical statements dominates the corpus; a deliberately simple block-level classifier assigns roughly 58\% of classified words to tool/protocol and roughly 5\% to safety policy, while the strictest rule-lines…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Region-Level Black-Box Defense Against Stealthy Embedding-Space Backdoors in CLIP ↗
Contrastive Language--Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a dominant vision backbone due to its strong transferability and zero-shot capabilities. However, recent studies reveal a critical vulnerability: embedding-space backdoor attacks. By poisoning only a tiny fraction of image--text pairs, adversaries can implant stealthy triggers that induce targeted shifts in CLIP's joint embedding space. Unlike conventional backdoors that manipulate classifier logits, these attacks corrupt representations directly, making them highly effective under extremely low poisoning ratios and difficult to det…
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