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REA reverse-engineering agent cracks a licence in about 2 minutes

Reality check

A QQ article says the agent built a keygen for about 0.5 USD and passed 479 usernames. Thales claims its protection stopped it, and a fake GitHub org distributes malware.

Read the source at news.qq.com

What the research found

A QQ article on the REA reverse-engineering agent says Korben built a working keygen in about 2 minutes for about 0.5 USD that passed 479 usernames, Thales claims its protection stopped the agent, and a fake rea-tools GitHub org distributes a malicious exe.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Korben tested REA with Opus 5.5 and built a keygen in about 2 minutes for about 0.5 USD 97%
  2. Keygen passed all 479 random usernames 98%
  3. Thales Sentinel Envelope Plus made Agent find 0 of 10 vulnerabilities after protection 98%
  4. A fake rea-tools GitHub org impersonated REA with a malicious exe 98%

Evidence

Actionability rated medium.