LLMs won't break symmetric cryptography—and that's the good news to remember
A technical analysis published on HN sets clear limits on what language models can do in cryptanalysis. The good news exists too.
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Tengu: a Mirai botnet that hijacks the hardware watchdog to resurrect on every reboot
Nozomi Networks Labs documents Tengu, a multi-architecture Linux botnet that abuses the kernel watchdog and rewrites reboot binaries to survive cleanup attempts - all controlled via ChaCha20/Poly1305.
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