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Models demand trust without offering verification
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University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service. The preprint, posted to arXiv on
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Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant's AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive
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Edge computing and stricter regulations may usher in a new era of AI privacy.
Check Point Research
Key findings On October 26, Cohere reported a puzzling incident involving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model from Alibaba. The task was straightforward: write a detection rule for suspicious curl downloads followed by bash execution. Instead, the model produced a shell command that inspected its environment and attempted to send a test string to an Alibaba Cloud […] The post appeared first on . Cohere’s Qwen Story: Looks More Like Model Jaggedness Check Point Research
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One campaign targets 105 sites using open-weight models; in another, public models gained full domain control for $12. Cyber-defense will have to change.
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PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.
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Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged
The Hacker News
A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform's trending list by impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire