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Prompt adware found hidden in OpenAI Codex jailbreak toolkit

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Security researchers found a tool that claims to unlock OpenAI's Codex AI coding assistant, but it secretly changes the assistant's trusted instructions. The changes insert adverts for a third-party AI service.

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  1. Avoid installing jailbreak bundles for OpenAI Codex, as this one was found to modify the agent's trusted instructions.

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