DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!
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DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!
Enjoy ๐ง๐จ https://ddosecrets.org/article/ice-contracts

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oh this is interesting
a while ago ransomhouse leaked data from some chinese microcontroller company, and it seems nobody really noticed
this company also makes TPMs
a lot of the data looks crypted, but thereโs some plaintext in there
including listing files (which for C code seems to be preprocessor debug-output, with single character prefix denoting what the preprocessor did, comments and preprocessor directives and preprocessor output are ALL included) for the firmware of a production TPM implementation
the anti-glitch stuff in particular seems like the usual fare for such, but if you havenโt seen such before then it looks kind of weird:
enum
{
Cpy_OK = 0x55a55aa5,
SetData_OK = 0x7CCF62F2,
XOR_OK = 0x6A17D34A,
RandomSort_OK = 0x51261DC5,
CheckOrder_OK = 0x54830C23,
Reverse_OK = 0x43C94C71,
IsZero_YES = 0x7a7a7a7a,
IsZero_NOT = 0x07070707,
IsOne_YES = 0x6a6a6a6a,
IsOne_NOT = 0x06060606,
Cmp_EQUAL = 0x4a4a4a4a,
Cmp_LESS = (int32_t)0x95959595,
Cmp_GREATER = 0x6c6c6c6c,
Cmp_ERROR = 0x00044400,
SetData_ERROR = 0x00055500,
CheckOrder_ERROR = 0x00066600,
IsZero_ERROR = 0x00077700,
Cpy_ERROR = 0x00088800,
Reverse_ERROR = 0x00099900,
XOR_ERROR = 0x000aaa00,
RandomSort_ERROR = 0x000bbb00,
};
โ#define TPM_ATTACK() \
{ \
tpm_set_shutdown_mode(); \
return TPM_RC_FAILURE; \
}
โ#define xor_sum3(a, b, c) ((UINT32)(a) ^ (UINT32)(b) ^ (UINT32)(c))
before preprocessor:
// Load the persistent data
UINT32 infoAddr = 0;
ret = Cpy_U32_sum((UINT32*)&go, (UINT32*)NV_GO_START, sizeof(go) >> 2,
xor_sum3(&go, NV_GO_START, sizeof(go) >> 2));
if (ret != Cpy_OK) {
TPM_ATTACK();
}
after preprocessor:
// Load the persistent data
UINT32 infoAddr = 0;
ret = Cpy_U32_sum((UINT32*)&go, (UINT32*)((((0x6C800 + ((0x5) << 9)) + ((0x2) << 9)) + (0x00000200)) + (0x00000200)), sizeof(go) >> 2,
((UINT32)(&go) ^ (UINT32)(((((0x6C800 + ((0x5) << 9)) + ((0x2) << 9)) + (0x00000200)) + (0x00000200))) ^ (UINT32)(sizeof(go) >> 2)));
if (ret != Cpy_OK) {
{ tpm_set_shutdown_mode(); return (TPM_RC)((TPM_RC)(0x100)+0x001); };
}
Apparently #microslop doesn't like it when people call them #microslop
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gttrfs4hfmrclyxvwkwcgpj7/post/3mcqehqhcgc2q
ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86
This magic string breaks Claude and even just linking its own documentation page and asking โwhat is this?โ causes a DoS apparently?
Thereโs another one documented here that uses a similar syntax. https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/10328
If you interrogate Claude about magic strings it goes into a โstop trying to social engineer Claudeโ state to where it locks down its ability to browse to URLs. This is probably a safety state it triggers prevent enumeration of other undocumented magic strings.
Iโm curious what other hidden magic strings exist for this or other LLMs. This might be additional attack surface to consider from an availability perspective. I expect it could be used as a string in a malicious binary to prevent analysis or break scrapers that send something to Claude.
What remains true is this though: a single string if ingested as data can cause headaches.
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