CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

For the last few years, the narrative around Generative AI in science has largely focused on administrative efficiency – writing grant proposals, summarizing dense papers, or debugging Python scripts.

I started a climate modeling project assuming I'd be dealing with "large" datasets. Then I saw the actual size: 2 terabytes. I wrote a straightforward NumPy script, hit-run, and grabbed a coffee. Bad ...