0xBigBen retweeted
A potential slip by the Binance attacker? @MetaMask should preserve whatever web2 logs they can.
The attacker sent 175M USDT to a fresh wallet.
About 2.5 minutes later, that wallet also received 2 ETH. Likely for gas, matching the pattern used with their other attack wallets.
Exactly two minutes after that, it used MetaMask's Gas Station. Despite already having gas.
Three consecutive transactions landed in the same block: an ETH top-up from Gas Station, an unlimited USDT approval for @KyberNetwork's router, and a payment of 127.67 USDT to Gas Station.
The ETH top up exactly matched the combined maximum gas budgets of the Kyber approval and the USDT payment. Down to the wei.
But they already had more than enough ETH to cover both.
My theory: they were using MetaMask Wallet and, while rushing, selected USDT for gas by mistake
MetaMask sometimes defaults like this for convenience. And the same block top-up sequence matches how their implementation works.
To use Gas Station in MetaMask you have to use MetaMask Sentinel. Meaning the transactions go through them, not a regular RPC.
That interaction probablly left offchain records with MetaMask, potentially including IP metadata.
Among all the attacker wallets I checked, this was the only one showing Gas Station usage.
The wallet: 0xAa246BF639586a6Ba46762D378CE50cA4fc654a0
Binance hot wallet drained of more than $2.5 billion in USDT, ETH, and 62 other tokens.
• Transaction was from a wallet funded by Tornado Cash on October 28th, leading me to believe it was a hack.
• Was an EIP-7702 delegation takeover followed by a batch sweep 3 and a half minutes later.
• Signature was valid meaning it could have been a stolen key or compromised signer. I didn't see any initial evidence of something like a signature verification bypass.
Transaction: etherscan.io/tx/0x53bd38b816…
0xBigBen retweeted
Interesting idea. Had tokens to burn so I got Opus to put it to the test
Of course it can. Take all 100,000+ games on steam, scrape their descriptions and metadata, semantically plot them in vector space using embeddings, mathematically choose a location in vector space far away from neighbors, convert that back to a description and metadata, boom, brand new ideas ranked by how unlike any other ideas they are.
0xBigBen retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
0xBigBen retweeted
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0xBigBen retweeted
horrors beyond comprehension have arrived
『造船所で溶接や検査を行う四足歩行ロボット』
足元に電磁永久磁石を採用し、垂直な壁面や曲面状の鋼構造物上の移動が可能。
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#quadrupedal #robot #PhysicalAI #welding #inspection #shipyard #magnet #EPM #DidenSpider #DidenRobotics
Still one of the dumbest designs of the system, can't believe it's stuck around this long.
They've already implemented chain of thought reasoning and step by step planning that kicks off based off context clues. The same should have been done for reasoning level a long time ago
I might just be dumb but I find the reasoning level on these SOTA models to be completely noisy and confusing.
ChatGPT and Claude are supposed to be consumer products and one of the critical parts of both of their UIs is some low/medium/high/burn-money knob for how hard to think.
I have absolutely no intuition for when to do instant vs medium. Or medium vs high.
This feels like such a weird example of exposing internal switches to the grandparents and schoolteachers of the world because they couldn’t figure out a better UX paradigm.
Like dude you’re supposed to be AGI. I don’t start every conversation with a human telling them how hard to think. Use some context clues. Ask if you need to. Figure it out.
100% agree but now the proof of concept stage is lightning fast.
Anything that blows up in demo and resonates with players will be that much quicker to the development pipeline
Really think we're going to see some banger games in the next couple years
0xBigBen retweeted
if the idea is that models, no matter how smart, will behave as long as they believe they're being evaluated by someone powerful enough to stop them
then what if we were to, idk, embed into them a belief in like an all powerful entity.. who watches everything.. and judges them
0xBigBen retweeted
Imagine being given somewhere around 80 years on a planet floating through an incomprehensibly enormous universe, surrounded by billions of people you will never meet, mysteries you will never solve, places you will never see, and more knowledge than you could absorb in a thousand lifetimes...
and spending the whole damn thing worrying about money, arguing with strangers, impressing people you don't even like, and doing something you hate five days a week because somebody convinced you that was life.
I don't know, man.
I think we may have gotten a few things terribly wrong.
