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August 12, 2025

August 12, 2025

August 12, 2025

Thinkst

Keeping up with security research is near impossible. ThinkstScapes helps with this. We scour through thousands of blog posts, tweets and conference proceedings to give you an overview of the work we think significantly moves the needle.


Remote DLL Injection with Timer-based Shellcode Execution - A technique that leverages the Windows thread pool to execute shellcode in-memory using legit system threads, stealthy, and likely to slip past modern defenses https://t.co/Mvvq9KEJCj

— Panos Gkatziroulis 🦄 (@netbiosX) August 11, 2025


From Drone Strike to File Recovery: Outsmarting a Nation State https://t.co/wzTFYRSYi6

— switched (@switch_d) August 12, 2025


LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find - Ars Technica

Chain-of-thought AI “degrades significantly” when asked to generalize beyond training.


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