Close Encounters of the Human Kind
Summary: Cisco Talos detailed a new approach to reverse engineering that pairs local AI agents with traditional analysis tools like the VB6 disassembler vbdec, which exposes its parsed data through a live Component Object Model (COM) interface so analysts can use natural language prompts to automate tasks like decompiling functions or building call graphs. Because the AI agent and disassembler share a local machine, sensitive binaries never leave the workstation.
What's compelling: The same newsletter notes a credential-harvesting operation that has already compromised more than 30,000 Internet-facing Fortinet devices across nearly 200 countries, and ShinyHunters' claim on more than 297GB of Council of Europe data - while the author's own point is that organizations know they should patch and use MFA everywhere, and still don't.
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