Assorted links for Monday, October 21:

1. Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021
2. Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

   The invisible characters, the result of a quirk in the Unicode text encoding standard, create an ideal covert channel that can make it easier for attackers to conceal malicious payloads fed into an LLM. The hidden text can similarly obfuscate the exfiltration of passwords, financial information, or other secrets out of the same AI-powered bots. Because the hidden text can be combined with normal text, users can unwittingly paste it into prompts.

3. Investigation of a Workbench UI Latency Issue: Resolving a UI latency investigation requires from the UI all the way down to the Linux kernel.
4. Web Browser Engineering by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson
5. Drasi: Drasi is a data processing platform that simplifies detecting changes in data and taking immediate action. It is a comprehensive solution that provides built-in capabilities to track system logs and change feeds for specific events, evaluate them for relevance, and automatically initiate appropriate reactions.