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ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

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CHATGPT OPERATOR PROMPT INJECTION EXPLOIT LEAKING PRIVATE DATA

ChatGPT Operator is an advanced AI agent equipped with web browsing and reasoning capabilities that can interact with websites on behalf of users. It is vulnerable to Prompt Injection attacks via instructions embedded into text or web content that can cause the model to browse sensitive pages and leak the information to attacker-controlled websites. OpenAI has implemented defenses such as prompting the user for confirmation, but researchers have shown that these mitigations can be bypassed.

MALICIOUS CHROME EXTENSIONS CAN SPOOF PASSWORD MANAGERS IN NEW ATTACK

Researchers at SquareX Labs developed a new “polymorphic” attack allowing malicious Chrome extensions to steal sensitive data. Once a user is tricked into installing the extension, it scans for password managers, impersonates them, and prompts users to reauthenticate, sending the information to attackers. SquareX Labs has urged Google to restrict extensions' ability to alter their appearance or behavior, but no mitigations currently exist for this attack.

ZEN AND THE ART OF MICROCODE HACKING

This post details the concepts and tools behind EntrySign, the AMD Zen microcode signature validation vulnerability disclosed last month. It delves into microcode fundamentals, AMD's anti-tampering measures, and the specific vulnerability involving the CMAC hash function. It also announces the release of the Zentool suite, which consists of tools for microcode patch examination, including limited disassembly, microcode patch authoring using a limited amount of reverse-engineered assembly, microcode patch signing, and microcode patch loading.

AUTO-COLOR: AN EMERGING AND EVASIVE LINUX BACKDOOR

Palo Alto's Unit 42 is monitoring a new malware known as Auto-Color. Upon startup, if the malware is not named Auto-Color, it will try to install a malware implant that imitates libcext.so. It also copies itself to /var/log/cross/auto-color and adds this library to ld.preload. Besides its command and control capabilities, the harmful library implant uses custom encryption and strives to conceal network communications by hooking into libc's open function.

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