macOS Gaslight Backdoor Weaponizes Prompt Injection Against Security Analysts
Gaslight is a Rust-based backdoor that researchers from SentinelOne have attributed to DPRK-aligned threat actors.
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Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
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