Handler on Duty: Didier Stevens
Threat Level: green
Podcast Detail
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, April 22nd: Phishing via Google; ChatGPT Fingerprint; Asus AI Cloud Vuln; PyTorch RCE
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It's 2025, so why are malicious advertising URLs still going strong?
Phishing attacks continue to take advantage of Google’s advertising services. Sadly, this is still the case for obviously malicious links, even after various anti-phishing services flag the URL.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/It%27s%202025...%20so%20why%20are%20obviously%20malicious%20advertising%20URLs%20still%20going%20strong%3F/31880
ChatGPT Fingerprinting Documents via Unicode
ChatGPT apparently started leaving fingerprints in texts, which it creates by adding invisible Unicode characters like non-breaking spaces.
https://www.rumidocs.com/newsroom/new-chatgpt-models-seem-to-leave-watermarks-on-text
Asus AI Cloud Security Advisory
Asus warns of a remote code execution vulnerability in its routers. The vulnerability is related to the AI Cloud feature. If your router is EoL, disabling the feature will mitigate the vulnerability
https://www.asus.com/content/asus-product-security-advisory/
PyTorch Vulnerability
PyTorch fixed a remote code execution vulnerability exploitable if a malicious model was loaded. This issue was exploitable even with the “weight_only=True" setting selected
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/security/advisories/GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6
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