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The Phishing Campaign Targeting Gmail Users from April 2025
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.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909942
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A Critical Look at MCP
Article URL: https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909941
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Invented or Discovered? P1
Article URL: https://natesesti.com/publicthinking/iodI
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909914
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Are Heat Pumps a Commodity?
Article URL: https://www.heatpumped.org/p/are-heat-pumps-a-commodity
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909903
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Analysis of the Russian information manipulation set Storm-1516 [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/2025-05/20250507_TLP-CLEAR_NP_SGDSN_VIGINUM_Technical%20report_Storm-1516.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909898
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Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/freddy-robot-british-ai-winter
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909884
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The Company Behind Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-message-archive/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909873
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The Case for Building a Bigger Window of Tolerance
Article URL: https://sivsankr.substack.com/p/you-are-not-distracted
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909869
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iVentoy tool injects malicious certificate and driver during Win install
Article URL: https://github.com/ventoy/PXE/issues/106
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909824
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Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics: Is Mem0 SOTA in Agent Memory?
Article URL: https://blog.getzep.com/lies-damn-lies-statistics-is-mem0-really-sota-in-agent-memory/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909538
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Sentry Acquires Emerge Tools (YC W21)
Article URL: https://www.emergetools.com/blog/posts/emerge-tools-is-joining-sentry
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909535
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AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024)
Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2438107-mind-reading-ai-recreates-what-youre-looking-at-with-amazing-accuracy/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909519
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Show HN: GuessTen – Guess the Top Ten of Various Categories
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!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909499
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Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync
Article URL: https://dinkomarinac.dev/building-local-first-flutter-apps-with-riverpod-drift-and-powersync
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909487
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I fucking hate myself
Article URL: https://dannorris.me/i-fucking-hate-myself/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909467
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India strikes nine sites in Pakistan weeks after Kashmir militant attack
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/may/06/pakistan-india-attacks-kashmir-live-updates
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909463
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Show HN: ChatGPT drew itself–and what I saw was spooky
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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Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Employee Burnout to Breach Corporate Defenses
Article URL: https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/ransomware-gangs-weaponize-employee-burnout
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43909448
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