News Summary

• A Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 targeted a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis.
• The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model's (LLM) safety mechanisms and prevent its normal functioning.
• The GuardBreaker-embedded VBS script is assessed to be part of a broader toolset employed by the threat actor.
• This is not the first time attackers have employed such tricks to bypass AI-assisted security workflows.