Star Wars Episode I: Racer multiplayer flaw allows remote code execution
The write-up examines the GOG Windows 1.0 build, which discovers games over UDP port 54792 using DirectPlay.
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Intezer agents rebuild Slack, Finder and TinyTurla-NG from binaries
The TinyTurla-NG rebuild scored 92.8% BinDiff similarity, and the Slack copy gained local AI autocomplete.
Claude and Codex users report blocks on AI reverse engineering
An OpenAI engineer says the Codex blocks are accidental and being fixed, while some users report bans.
MicroSim reports high binary-similarity scores on TREX microcode graphs
On a class-disjoint TREX split, the authors report 0.9972 ROC-AUC and 0.9762 MCC, above retrained Gemini, SAFE, and jTrans.
AI tools could accelerate GTA VI PC port
AI reverse engineering of GTA VI PS5 binary might force Rockstar to align its Q1 2027 PC release closer to console launch.
SentinelLabs releases VerifiedIDA for LLM reverse engineering
VerifiedIDA ties annotations to evidence in open-source IDA Pro to make LLM-driven reverse engineering inspectable, continuable, and reusable.
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Neural decompilation candidate selection closes gap on obfuscated binaries
Generate-then-select pipeline with execution-guided selection reaches 88.8% pass@1 on obfuscated inputs.
Anthropic starts blocking Claude from reverse-engineering video games
The reported limits cover modding and decompiling, and Anthropic has not explained the change.
Claude reportedly blocks game cloning and some reverse engineering
Users say Claude Code and Opus 5.5 refuse existing-game recreation and some benign reverse-engineering tasks; Anthropic has not confirmed the rule.
SANS diary explains a local Ghidra Server for malware labs
A shared Ghidra repository keeps analysis projects outside disposable VMs and supports versioning and multiple clients.
ICALL-BENCH tests LLM interprocedural reasoning on real binaries
On 50 C/C++ programs, five models’ verifiable success ranged from 23% to 81%, and more information access did not reliably help the hardest cases.
Researcher uses Codex to bypass four USB encryption products
Hidden accounts and hardcoded keys decrypted protected files without owner passwords, one flaw in seven minutes.
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Fine-tuned small models predict x86-64 register inputs from outputs
GRPO fine-tuning lifts Nemotron-3-Nano knowable-register accuracy from 63.3% to 95.2%, within four points of frontier scores.
Generative AI lowers the cost of reverse engineering, paper argues
The authors say cheaper AI-assisted reverse engineering strains trade secret, copyright, anti-circumvention, misuse, and contract law.
OpenAI Codex recovers keys from four encrypted USB products
Hardcoded AES, SM4, and Triple-DES keys and hidden accounts let files be decrypted without the user password.
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Post claims Samsung TV AI listening led to OpenAI suspension
The feed contains only a Hacker News title and score, with no technical details or vendor statement.
VMSpec recovers program semantics from virtual-machine-obfuscated code
A prototype stripped VM obfuscation from nearly all of 147 benchmark programs and six malware domain-generation algorithms.
Viral AI repo pitches cloning apps and device software without source
404 Media reports Reverse Engineer Anything passed 342,000 GitHub stars amid TV, IoT and software clone posts.
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
decomp.dev is shutting down after AI made game decompilation and cloning trivial, overwhelming human-led projects.
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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
AI decompilation is reconstructing commercial games, aiding preservation while raising fears of software reuse.
SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours
SentinelOne says OpenAI Daybreak produces human-level malware reverse engineering in about eight hours.
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Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries
GitHub project rea uses AI agents to reverse engineer apps from behavior down to native binaries.
REA: New AI-Powered Reverse Engineering Tool Supports Ghidra, Hopper, and Claude Code
Open-source REA connects AI coding agents to Ghidra, Hopper, and IDA for local binary reverse engineering.
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Hacking the Eufy Doorbell and Base Station
A researcher showed Eufy doorbells can be deauthenticated off hidden Wi-Fi and credentials recovered from memory.