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1. Oct 20
   REA backlash: client hardening, anti-AI reversing tools and trojan fake repos

   A 字母AI article republished by 钛媒体 describes the fallout from REA, an agent that does not decompile itself but orchestrates tools such as Ghidra, IDA and Hopper. French tech blogger Korben tested it with Opus 5.5: the agent wrote a working Python keygen for a crackme binary in about two minutes at roughly $0.5 in API cost, and the keygen passed verification with 479 random usernames. Elias Bachaalany, co-author of Practical Reverse Engineering, called it hype, noting GhidraMCP and IDA Pro MCP already enabled AI-assisted reversing in 2025. The article also reports Thales releasing Sentinel Envelope Plus, which in Thales' own controlled test left an agent finding none of 10 vulnerabilities it found in the unprotected app, with 970x token consumption; and a fake GitHub org, rea-tools, shipping an 82.6 MB trojanized archive that had been downloaded 172 times when reported, after which maintainers merged a README warning on Oct 13 listing only three official channels.

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2. Oct 12
   REA tops 110K stars in a week as AI reverse-engineering wave stirs legal debate

   REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) connects reverse-engineering tools such as Ghidra, IDA and JADX to coding agents like Claude Code and Codex through MCP, so a single prompt makes an agent inspect a binary or app package and return findings with evidence. Citing Star History data, the article says the project went from under 10,000 stars on October 6 to more than 110,000 on October 12 — roughly 100,000 stars in six days. It notes that open-source projects wiring AI into reverse-engineering tools, such as GhidraMCP and IDA Pro MCP, already existed, that several reverse-engineering experts call the hype overblown, and that sending decompiled output to model providers plus anti-decompilation clauses in user agreements can raise trade-secret, copyright and contract risks.

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