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Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
Three hikers were rescued from Mount Shasta after following Google Gemini's advice to carry insufficient food and water during a multi-day ordeal.
Three young men began their Mount Shasta ascent at 3 a.m. and summited at 7 p.m., far past the recommended noon turnaround, then tried descending in the dark. The Siskiyou County sheriff's office said Gemini advised far less food and water than required as the planned 8-hour climb became a multiday ordeal. The trio spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon and were rescued the next morning by Forest Service rangers and volunteers.
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Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday
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PAPERMILL Hackers Abuse Signed Notepad++ to Deploy VenomRAT in Tax Audit Attacks
PAPERMILL phishing campaign abuses a signed Notepad++ copy and tax-audit lures to deploy VenomRAT against targets in India.
JUMPSEC tracks PAPERMILL as an emerging cluster whose emails pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and deliver tax-audit themed disk images. The mounted image pairs a legitimately signed, renamed executable with a rogue libcurl.dll for DLL sideloading, then uses a Donut shellcode loader to run VenomRAT 6.0.3 in memory with hidden VNC, data-stealing, and file-grabbing capabilities. The loader includes anti-analysis checks and RunOnce persistence, and lures plus China-connected infrastructure overlap with the Silver Fox ecosystem, though attribution remains unconfirmed.
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