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OTX Threat: macOS.Gaslight | Rust Backdoor Turns Prompt Injection on the Analyst, Not the Sandbox

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A sophisticated Rust-based macOS implant named macOS.Gaslight has been discovered, featuring a novel 3.5 KB prompt-injection payload containing 38 fabricated system messages designed to disrupt LLM-assisted malware analysis. The backdoor communicates via Telegram Bot API with AES-GCM encrypted payloads over certificate-pinned TLS and includes self-redaction capabilities to hide its bot token from

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