New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis

New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis Ravie LakshmananJun 25, 2026AI Security / Malware A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the artifact. The malware has been codenamed Gaslight owing to this deceptive behavior. It's been assessed with high confidence that the tool is the work of North Korea-aligned threat actors. "Its most notable feature is an embedded cascade of fabricated system-failure messages, designed to make an LLM-assisted triage agent doubt its own session," SentinelOne researcher Phil Stokes said in a technical report. "It attacks…