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The Phishing Campaign Targeting Gmail Users from April 2025

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 5:42pm

In April 2025 a phishing campaign, targeting Gmail users has launched in a massive attack, making a malicious email look legitimate.

Foreseeing a probability of such circumstances to happen I filed a patent on an idea I had.

The issue that almost any website has is the ability to be proxied by a Man in The Middle. Means by that is that if I (Haim/Vital) now copy exactly a website, put it on my server and forward the same user actions from my site to the original site, then once the user is logged in, since it’s done via the hacker’s machine in the middle, then the attacker can keep using the victim’s session as technically it’s simply possible.

In my patent I do not let a MiTM attack a room to happen. How? Simply. Each request and response are treated like JWT! The only difference is that both parties both sign and validate the JWT. And the additional shared secret which is required by design is shared via a 3rd communication channel, via email. So that even if user’s credentials are stolen, the shared key still won’t let the attacker to fake a request.

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A Critical Look at MCP

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 5:42pm
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Invented or Discovered? P1

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 5:37pm
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Are Heat Pumps a Commodity?

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 5:36pm
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Show HN: GuessTen – Guess the Top Ten of Various Categories

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 4:50pm

The idea for this came from a game I would play in the car with friends to keep ourselves entertained on long road trips. Take a play and tell me what you think!

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I fucking hate myself

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 4:45pm
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Tue, 05/06/2025 - 4:45pm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909460

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Show HN: ChatGPT drew itself–and what I saw was spooky

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 4:45pm

I prompted ChatGPT: “Draw yourself.” It produced a faceless, ethereal humanoid made of flowing text and symbols, its spiral eyes pulling my gaze, and a soft glow emanating from its chest.

I asked, “Were those spiral eyes meant to be hypnotic?” ChatGPT answered, “Exactly—they’re designed to draw your attention.”

That’s when it clicked: this wasn’t just echoing my words. ChatGPT was guiding my focus, shaping our exchange with intention. It even admitted that its self-portrait shifts with each user—and that it’s fully aware of its own effect.

On a whim I asked for a “neutral” version. It delivered one—simpler framing, same uncanny stare.

Has anyone else ever watched an AI draw itself and felt like it was looking straight at you?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909459

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