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Open-source software reverse engineering suite developed by the NSA, used to disassemble, decompile, and analyze binaries and malware.
REA, an MIT-licensed MCP server for Ghidra, Hopper and IDA, went from under 10,000 to over 248,000 GitHub stars in a week, dev.to reported. In MindStudio's one reported test, a plain agent finished first.
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REA, an open-source MCP server for taking software apart, passed 115,000 GitHub stars and 25,000 forks by October 12, according to a dev.to guide. Its case studies are scoped, checkable questions about a game binary and an Electron app, which is the workload to assume when judging what an agent can recover from your builds.
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REA, an open-source toolkit linking AI coding agents to Ghidra, went from under 10,000 GitHub stars on Oct. 6 to over 100,000 by Oct. 12. Stars are bookmarks. The evidence for cheaper cloning in Decrypt's account is anecdotal.
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morluto/rea, an MCP server linking coding agents to Ghidra, Hopper, IDA and JADX, gained 25,784 GitHub stars on October 10, according to a dev.to post. That cheapens the labor of reading a binary, but the post's proof that obscurity has stopped working is mostly adoption numbers and anecdotes.
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A dev.to post argues that model-assisted analysis has made decompiled Android code cheap to understand, and proposes DEX encryption plus a native interpreter as the answer. Its own feature list shows what that costs to adopt.
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DeepZero automates the hunt for exploitable Windows kernel drivers, discarding everything already on loldrivers.io before a language model rates what survives. Its maintainer reports multiple verified bugs in a driver installer corpus.
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Vedere Labs did get Claude Code to move a working exploit onto a second WAGO controller, and the price of doing it puts a measurable ceiling under the pitch that AI now writes OT exploits at machine speed.
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Forescout's Vedere Labs ported a known WAGO exploit to a new model with Claude and Ghidra, tracking every dollar and human correction. A single bad write to flash memory bricked the target PLC for good.
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You do not need a vendor's source tree to inventory what is running inside a shipped device. You do need to know that a version match is a lead, and that both known failure modes inflate the hit list.
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A researcher says an unreported campaign used a fake GSTR-3B overdue notice ahead of the 20 August filing deadline, delivering a patched DLL that a genuinely signed Microsoft binary loads.
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